Child Poverty Bill

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will estimate the monetary value in 2009-10 prices of the relative poverty threshold contained in her Department's Child Poverty Bill for  (a) a single adult,  (b) a childless couple and  (c) a couple with one dependent child; and if she will make a statement.

Helen Goodman: holding answer 22 October 2009
	Estimates of the monetary value in 2009-10 prices of the relative poverty threshold are not available. The thresholds for 2007-08 (the latest Households Below Average Income statistics available) are  (a) £158 per week for a single adult;  (b) £236 per week for a couple without children; and  (c) £283 per week for a couple with one child under 14, and £314 per week for a couple with one child who is 14 or over.

Cold Weather Payments: Bedfordshire

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cold weather payments have been made to residents of Mid Bedfordshire constituency in each year since 2003.

Helen Goodman: Mid-Bedfordshire constituency is linked to Bedford weather station. The number of times cold weather payments have been triggered at this weather station in each year since 2002-03 is given in the following table:
	
		
			  Cold weather payment triggers at Bedford weather station 
			   Number 
			 2002-03 1 
			 2003-04 0 
			 2004-05 0 
			 2005-06 0 
			 2006-07 0 
			 2007-08 0 
			 2008-09 3 
			  Source: DWP records. 
		
	
	It is not possible to give the estimated number of payments made in 2002-03 and 2008-09 to residents of Mid-Bedfordshire constituency as this information is not available at constituency level but only by weather station (and Bedford weather station covers a wider area than just this constituency).

Housing Benefit

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households living in the private rented sector were claiming housing benefit in  (a) England,  (b) each English region and  (c) each London borough in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.

Helen Goodman: Such information as is available is in the following tables.
	
		
			  Number of households in private rented sector receiving housing benefit in England and each English region: May 2005 
			   Number 
			 England 692,440 
			 North East 36,790 
			 North West 112,130 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 63,730 
			 East Midlands 43,700 
			 West Midlands 59,130 
			 East 59,180 
			 London 132,060 
			 South East 104,700 
			 South West 81,020 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of households in private rented sector receiving housing benefit in England and each English region: May 2009 
			   Number 
			 England (1)1,071,050 
			 North East 55,380 
			 North West 159,950 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 101,340 
			 East Midlands 76,480 
			 West Midlands 101,570 
			 East 96,290 
			 London (1)200,140 
			 South East 159,990 
			 South West 119,910 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of households in private rented sector receiving housing benefit in London boroughs: May 2005 
			   Number 
			 London 132,060 
			 Barking and Dagenham 2,690 
			 Barnet 7,640 
			 Bexley 2,130 
			 Brent 8,590 
			 Bromley 2,880 
			 Camden 3,880 
			 City of London 80 
			 Croydon 7,380 
			 Ealing 5,860 
			 Enfield 6,610 
			 Greenwich 2,980 
			 Hackney 4,490 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,920 
			 Haringey 7,400 
			 Harrow 4,570 
			 Havering 2,200 
			 Hillingdon 3,380 
			 Hounslow 3,310 
			 Islington 2,180 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 2,600 
			 Kingston Upon Thames 1,690 
			 Lambeth 4,710 
			 Lewisham 5,400 
			 Merton 2,620 
			 Newham 8,140 
			 Redbridge 4,830 
			 Richmond Upon Thames 1,800 
			 Southwark 3,180 
			 Sutton 2,060 
			 Tower Hamlets 2,000 
			 Waltham Forest 4,480 
			 Wandsworth 3,590 
			 Westminster 3,810 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of households in private rented sector receiving housing benefit in London boroughs: May 2009 
			   Number 
			 London (1)200,140 
			 Barking and Dagenham 4,890 
			 Barnet (2)— 
			 Bexley 3,560 
			 Brent 11,380 
			 Bromley 4,340 
			 Camden 4,120 
			 City of London 110 
			 Croydon 12,880 
			 Ealing 8,690 
			 Enfield (2)— 
			 Greenwich 4,230 
			 Hackney 7,190 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 3,720 
			 Haringey 10,000 
			 Harrow 7,000 
			 Havering 3,410 
			 Hillingdon 5,750 
			 Hounslow 5,170 
			 Islington 2,830 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 3,350 
			 Kingston Upon Thames 2,690 
			 Lambeth 6,330 
			 Lewisham 7,940 
			 Merton 3,690 
			 Newham (2)— 
			 Redbridge (2)— 
			 Richmond Upon Thames 2,390 
			 Southwark 3,850 
			 Sutton 3,400 
			 Tower Hamlets 3,910 
			 Waltham Forest 7,760 
			 Wandsworth 6,000 
			 Westminster 5,980 
			 (1) Estimates of the four missing London boroughs have been used to get these figures. (2) Denotes information not available until revised figures are released on 11 November 2009. Please visit http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/Methodology_revision_webpage.pdf for an understanding of improvements in methodology for housing benefit/council tax benefit caseload national statistics. Notes: 1. The data refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Figures for any non-responding authorities have been estimated. 4. Figures may not sum due to rounding. 5. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases. 6. Private tenants exclude registered social landlords.  Source:  Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent, taken in May 2005 and Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) taken in May 2009

New Deal Schemes: Enfield

Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents resident in Enfield North constituency found work through the New Deal in each year since 1998.

Jim Knight: The table shows the number of job starts by people in the Enfield North constituency who have found work through the New Deal for Lone Parents since 1998. Some individuals will have had more than one job start.
	
		
			   Job starts 
			 1998 — 
			 1999 40 
			 2000 60 
			 2001 60 
			 2002 70 
			 2003 100 
			 2004 130 
			 2005 150 
			 2006 160 
			 2007 140 
			 2008 160 
			 2009 20 
			  Notes: 1. '—' nil or negligible. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Westminster parliamentary constituency (post May 2005) is allocated using the ONS postcode directory and customer's postcode. 4. Year of entering job is the calendar year that the job was gained. 5. Latest data are to February 2009.  Source: The Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate 
		
	
	The figures are available at:
	http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/tabtool.asp

Poverty: Children

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what datasets show the number of children living in child poverty by  (a) local authority area and  (b) ward; how often each is produced; what time lag is involved for each; and if she will make a statement.

Helen Goodman: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The dataset 'Children in Families in Receipt of Out-of-work Benefits' is currently used as a proxy to measure child poverty at the local level. This dataset is the basis for indicator 116 in the National Indicator Set, used by local government and its partners. The data were produced between 2004 and 2007 and are available at both local authority and ward level. April 2007 is the latest available. There is a six-month time lag for this dataset.
	A revised indicator is currently being developed to measure child poverty at local level and will include children living in low income working families as well as those in workless families. The revised indicator will be the proportion of children living in families in receipt of out-of-work benefits or working families whose income is below 60 per cent. of median income. This will provide information on both in-work and out-of-work poverty in the local area.
	The data will also be available at both local authority and ward level. It will be produced annually. Data will shortly be available for 2006 and 2007.
	In addition to NI116, the National Indicator Set provides local authorities and their partners with a wide range of data related to child poverty and its underlying causes. Local authorities can use local administrative data to supplement the data that are provided from central Government.
	The Child Poverty Unit is working with the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO)—a sector led organisation—to develop a tool to help local delivery partners analyse local data relating to child poverty. This tool will be available from the end of the year.

Winter Fuel Payments: Overseas Residence

James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many overseas-based pensioners received winter fuel allowance in 2008-09.

Angela Eagle: 64,000 pensioners based overseas received a winter fuel allowance in 2008-09.
	 Notes:
	Data is rounded to the nearest 1000.
	 Source:
	Winter Fuel Payment datasets

Departmental Travel

Justine Greening: To ask the Solicitor-General how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on  (a) car hire,  (b) train travel,  (c) air travel,  (d) hotels and  (e) restaurant meals for (i) Ministers and (ii) staff in the Law Officers' Departments in each of the last five years.

Vera Baird: Treasury Solicitors (including AGO and HMCPSI) has spent the following on travel and subsistence in each of the last five years
	
		
			  Year ending 31 March  Treasury Solicitor's (£)  AGO (£)  HMCPSI (£)  Total (£000) 
			 2005 419,841 77,068 144,746 641,655 
			 2006 486,821 112,103 141,995 740,919 
			 2007 416,544 143,943 166,796 727,283 
			 2008 525,616 84,126 137,003 746,744 
			 2009 362,159 66,825 111,311 540,295 
		
	
	TSol spend includes case related Travel and Subsistence which is recharged to clients on a cost recovery basis.
	It is not possible to provide an analysis of this expenditure for each of the categories without the disproportionate cost threshold.
	
		
			  Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO) 
			  £ 
			   2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  2009-10( 1) 
			 Air fares — 32,539 73,160 41,058 17,400 
			 Hotels 3,359 52,460 86,312 69,607 24,667 
			 Rail tickets 223,100 109,418 167,860 194,930 65,352 
			 Vehicle hire 4,075 4,268 2,713 950 667 
			 Total 230,534 198,684 330,045 306,545 108,086 
			 (1) 2009-10 figures represent April 2009-September 2009. 
		
	
	RCPO does not identify separately expenditure on restaurant meals.
	
		
			  Serious Fraud Office 
			  £ 
			  Financial year  (a) Car hire  (b) Train travel  (c) Air travel  (d) Hotels  (e) Restaurant meals 
			 2005-06 37,969 101,404 216,061 142,225 4,064 
			 2006-07 48,053 93,845 167,842 318,761 6,154 
			 2007-08 35,905 80,247 308,282 202,592 6,372 
			 2008-09 32,781 139,947 338,993 243,973 8,650 
			 1 April 2009-30 September 2009(1) 8,562 56,464 63,157 93,601 3,863 
			 (1) The last date for which figures are available. 
		
	
	Information is not available in comparable form for 2004-05. The figures for restaurant meals also cover working lunches and refreshments and are thus overstated: a separate breakdown is not readily available.
	The Government publish, on an annual basis, the total costs of all ministerial overseas travel costing in excess of £500. The 2008-09 list was published on 16 July and can be viewed at:
	http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/propriety_and_ethics/ministers/travel_gifts.aspx.

Causeway Hospital: Prison Escapes

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what changes have been made to the procedures being used by the Prison Service in Northern Ireland following the review into the escape of a prisoner from the Causeway Hospital on 15 April 2008.

Paul Goggins: Following a brief escape of a prisoner awaiting treatment at the Causeway hospital, a senior prison governor carried out a comprehensive investigation.
	The investigation identified a number of shortcomings in the management of the escort and made recommendations for staff to be reminded of the correct procedures. It was concluded there was, however, no need to change the procedures themselves.

Buses: York

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the percentage change in levels of bus usage in  (a) England,  (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and  (c) the City of York was in each year since 1996-97.

Sadiq Khan: Between 1996-97 and 2007-08 (the latest year for which figures are currently available) the number of local bus passenger journeys in England increased by 18 per cent. Over the same period the number of local bus passenger journeys in Yorkshire and the Humber decreased by 13 per cent.
	Owing to the small number of bus operators present in the area, figures for the City of York are commercially confidential and therefore cannot be published.
	Figures for each year can be found in the following table:
	
		
			  Passenger journeys( 1)  for Yorkshire and Humberside and England, 1996-97 to 2007-08 
			  Million 
			   1996-97  1997-98  1998-99  1999-00  2000-01  2001-02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08 
			  England 
			 Passenger journeys 3,844 3,859 3,808 3,804 3,842 3,881 3,964 4,087 4,140 4,196 4,470 4,530 
			 Percentage change — 0.4 -1.3 -0.1 1.0 1.0 2.1 3.1 1.3 1.4 6.5 1.3 
			  
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 
			 Passenger journeys 431 419 394 398 397 387 388 376 358 362 381 374 
			 Percentage change — -2.8 -6.0 1.0 -0.3 -2.5 0.3 -3.1 -4.8 1.1 5.2 -1.8 
			 (1) Each boarding of the vehicle is counted as one journey.  Source: DFT Survey of Bus Operators

Roads: Finance

Richard Spring: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department spent per capita on  (a) highways and  (b) other roads in (i) Suffolk, (ii) the East of England and (iii) nationally in each of the last five years.

Sadiq Khan: The information is not available in the form requested.
	Funding for investment, maintenance and operation of strategic roads is the responsibility of the Highways Agency (HA). The HA's reporting systems do not record actual expenditure for local authority areas; expenditure is recorded by project and activity. Estimates are compiled for regional expenditure to supplement data reported in the Department for Transport's annual report. Details of Highways Agency expenditure are included in their annual report which is available in the Library of the House.
	The development and improvement of non-strategic roads in England is the responsibility of the relevant local transport authority. The Department allocates block funding to local transport authorities outside London for capital investment in transport improvement and maintenance projects. This funding is not ring-fenced and local authorities have discretion to spend their allocations in line with their priorities.
	There is additional funding available for detrunked roads and road safety schemes. The following table shows the allocations for England (excluding London), the East of England and Suffolk in each of the last five years for these categories.
	
		
			   £ million  
			   Capital funding for non strategic roads  Funding for road safety and detrunked roads  Total funding  Per c apita spend (£) 
			  Suffolk 
			 2008-09 21.545 4.819 26.364 36.821 
			 2007-08 21.845 6.193 28.038 39.546 
			 2006-07 17.610 3.728 21.338 30.396 
			 2005-06 22.624 3.586 26.210 37.658 
			 2004-05 22.230 3.145 25.375 36.936 
			  
			  East of England 
			 2008-09 157.791 28.422 186.213 32.504 
			 2007-08 159.476 32.221 191.697 33.863 
			 2006-07 152.826 18.733 171.559 30.603 
			 2005-06 156.899 10.225 167.124 30.042 
			 2004-05 156.586 9.839 166.425 30.199 
			  England (excludes London) 
			 2008-09 1,280.000 183.691 1,463.691 33.398 
			 2007-08 1,254.000 181.936 1,435.936 32.983 
			 2006-07 1,218.871 83.716 1,302.587 30.117 
			 2005-06 1,215.285 80.358 1,295.643 30.125 
			 2004-05 1,308.411 63.509 1,371.920 32.113 
		
	
	In addition over £118 million was provided for local major road projects in the East of England over this five year period. For Suffolk specifically the Department contributed £29.621 million towards the South Lowestoft Relief Road and £12 million towards the B1115 Stowmarket Relief Road.
	Revenue expenditure on transport is generally supported through the Department for Communities and Local Government's formula grant. Transport for London are directly responsible for London's strategic roads and receive financial support from the Government's Greater London Authority Transport Grant.

Transport: Infrastructure

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much is budgeted to be spent from the public purse on transport infrastructure improvements in  (a) the South West and  (b) Dorset in 2009-10.

Sadiq Khan: A budget for total Department for Transport expenditure on transport infrastructure improvements by region is not available. The following figures show allocations of local and regional funding for combined spend on the Integrated Transport Block (generally schemes costing less than £5 million) and highway maintenance, and Major schemes (generally schemes costing more than £5 million).
	 South West
	Major schemes: £92 million
	Integrated Transport Block and highway maintenance: £175 million
	 Dorset
	Major schemes: £32 million
	Integrated Transport Block and highway maintenance: £19 million
	The Department spends funds on the strategic road network through the Highways Agency (HA). The HA's reporting systems do not record actual expenditure for local authority areas; expenditure is recorded by project and activity.

Tunnels: Mobile Phones

Greg Knight: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what studies his Department has made of mobile telephone coverage in road and rail tunnels; and how many road and rail tunnels are equipped with GSM transceivers.

Chris Mole: The Department for Transport has not conducted studies on mobile phone coverage in tunnels.
	The Heathrow Express rail service does offer uninterrupted mobile coverage in its tunnel sections. However in general rail tunnels are not equipped with GSM transceivers.
	Most existing Highways Agency tunnels have Airwave transmission to support emergency services and traffic officer communications. Where provision is made for public mobile phone coverage in tunnels, suitable agreements are required with the individual mobile phone operators.
	For new, longer Highways Agency road tunnels such as at Hindhead, and where tunnels are currently being upgraded such as on the A1 (M) at Hatfield, the infrastructure is being provided to support mobile phone usage. Mobile phone coverage is also available in both bores of the Dartford tunnel. For shorter tunnels generally the mobile phone signal spills through the portal enabling reception in most of the tunnel.
	The management of the local road network in England is the responsibility of local highway authorities. Data on how many road tunnels on local roads in England are equipped with GSM transceivers is not held centrally.

Agriculture: Environment Protection

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce levels of  (a) greenhouse gas emissions and  (b) biodiversity loss arising from intensive farming practices; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan published on 15 July is the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed economy, setting out the Government's approach to securing reductions from the agriculture sector. It challenges the English farming industry to develop a voluntary plan to deliver three million tonnes CO2 of emissions savings from livestock and fertiliser—which will reduce emissions in English agriculture by about 10 per cent. by 2020.
	To achieve this, Government will be supporting farmers to take action by ensuring they have access to a comprehensive low-carbon advisory service; continuing our support for Anaerobic Digestion; improving the national inventory for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from farming; and working with the Carbon Trust to make farming businesses eligible for its interest-free loans for low-carbon activity.
	The Plan commits Government to review progress on the voluntary plan by 2012 and intervene if the voluntary plan is failing to deliver. Government will publish its options for intervention in its Carbon Reduction Delivery Plan in spring 2010.
	We have also worked closely with the dairy sector to produce a Dairy Roadmap to develop opportunities to mitigate climate change impacts and assess the positive benefits to the landscape and biodiversity of cattle husbandry. A Beef and Lamb Roadmap is now being developed by the industry with DEFRA support and the newly formed Pig Meat Supply Chain Task Force will be working with the industry's Pig Environment Partnership to deliver similar roadmap for the pig sector.
	Agriculture can have both positive and negative impacts on biodiversity. These effects are monitored through a variety of sources. These include the Farmland Birds Index, which represents a general indicator of the state of the farmed environment, research and analyses through the Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory and the continued development of Environmental Accounts for Agriculture. The aim is to quantify and value the full range of impacts using the best available evidence from a range of sources to help inform policy responses.
	Policy mechanisms include regulation, incentives, as well as providing information and advice to farmers on how to improve their environmental performance. Earlier this year there was a review of baseline standards in cross compliance that farmers have to meet as a condition of the Single Payment Scheme. Cross compliance protects a variety of habitat features and in future will place greater emphasis on protecting water resources and water quality. These standards are complemented by our agri-environment schemes such as Environmental Stewardship which reward farmers for positive habitat management.
	Environmental Stewardship has recently been reviewed resulting in new options to further encourage farmers to manage their land in an environmentally friendly way and an overarching climate change theme. In particular there will be a new component specifically designed for uplands farmers which will be launched in January 2010. Our agri-environment schemes have been popular and successful with 65.8 per cent. of farmland currently under agreement. Natural England has a target to increase the coverage of the schemes to 70 per cent. by March 2011.

Agriculture: Subsidies

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many individuals have been paid £200,000 or more under the single farm payment scheme in each year for which figures are available; and how much was paid to each such recipient in each such year.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The overall Single Payment Scheme (SPS) payments made to individuals who received £200,000 or more in the last three years and total amounts are reflected in the following table. The details for each recipient will be placed in the House Library.
	
		
			  SPS year  Individuals  Total amount paid (£)( 1) 
			 2006 344 119,795,387.90 
			 2007 309 107,022,405.65 
			 2008(2) 378 120,664,553.45 
			 (1) The total payment value for each year does not account for any additional payments made as a result of any modulation refund due to individuals. (2) This line reflects the 2008 claim payments made to date. The Rural Payments Agency continues to work on a small number of applications that are not yet validated for full payment.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Stephen Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what conditions govern the use of the grant provided by the European Commission Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health for implementation of the Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Programme.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The European Commission Decision that was approved by the Standing Committee allows allocated EU funding to be used to reimburse member states for three measures: the costs of tuberculin testing, gamma interferon blood testing and compensation for cattle slaughtered.
	The Decision sets out the maximum of the costs that member states can claim for each:
	tuberculin test: €1.75 per test
	gamma-interferon test: €5 per test
	compensation: €375 per animal.

Climate Change: Farming

Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department has commissioned on the effect of farming methods on climate change.

Jim Fitzpatrick: DEFRA has commissioned a number of studies, some of which are ongoing, to assess the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from several agricultural commodities throughout their lifecycle. This includes assessment of commodities produced in different farming systems (including organic). The most relevant studies are listed as follows:
	Project AC020: A study of the scope for the application of research in animal genomics and breeding to reduce nitrogen and methane emissions from livestock based food chains—published in April 2008.
	Project AC020: Developing technologies to improve the fertility of dairy cows—published in January 2008.
	Project AC0206: Agriculture and climate change: turning results into practical action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—A review—published in July 2007.
	Project AC0207: The translation of existing research outputs into actions that reduce pollution gas emissions from agriculture—due for imminent completion.
	Project AC0208: The limits to a sustainable livestock sector in the UK—due for imminent completion.
	Project AC0209: Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions—due for completion in March 2010.
	Project IS0205: Determining the environmental burdens and resource use in the production of agricultural and horticultural commodities—published in August 2005.
	Project IS0222: Developing and delivering environmental Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of agricultural systems—due to be completed in September 2010.
	Project AC0210: Economic and environmental impacts of livestock production in the UK—due to be completed in July 2010.
	Project AC0214: Roadmaps integrating RTD in developing realistic GHG mitigation options from agriculture up to 2030—due for imminent completion.
	Project AC0216: Review of the Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for Agriculture produced for the Committee on Climate Change—due for imminent completion.
	Project AC0219: Methane emissions by individual dairy cows under commercial conditions—due to be completed in March 2010
	Project AC0310. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation—a Risk Based Approach—due for completion in April 2010.
	Project AC0406: The optimisation and impacts of expanding biogas production—due for completion in January 2010.
	Project WQ0106: Quantitative Assessment of Scenarios for Managing Trade-Off Between Economics, Environment and Media—completed 2009.

Armed Forces: Families

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many military personnel stationed at each base in  (a) the UK and  (b) abroad of the (i) Army, (ii) Navy and (iii) Royal Air Force; which of these bases has an officer in charge of families; and what recreational, social, medical and educational facilities are available at each base for forces families.

Kevan Jones: There are well over a thousand locations in the UK and around the world where armed forces personnel and their families are based. To list the numbers of personnel and the facilities available at each could be done only at disproportionate cost. Each base has personnel who, as part of their duties, are responsible for the welfare of service personnel and their families. Facilities available include a wide range of services from HIVE information services, dedicated sports and recreational facilities, community centres, crèches to numerous social and special interest clubs.

Armed Forces: Housing

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 19 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1219W, on armed forces: housing, how many units of substitute service accommodation there are in each region.

Kevan Jones: The following tables list the number and location of all substitute service family accommodation (SSFA) and substitute service single accommodation (SSSA).
	
		
			  SSFA 
			  Location  Number of properties 
			 Aberdeen 2 
			 Birmingham 109 
			 Bath 22 
			 Blackburn 5 
			 Bradford 1 
			 Bournemouth 29 
			 Bolton 8 
			 Brighton 4 
			 Bromley 1 
			 Bristol 13 
			 Carlisle 4 
			 Cambridge 20 
			 Cardiff 13 
			 Chester 7 
			 Chelmsford 9 
			 Colchester 2 
			 Croydon 3 
			 Canterbury 4 
			 Coventry 24 
			 Crewe 1 
			 Dundee 3 
			 Derby 2 
			 Dumfries 2 
			 Durham 5 
			 Darlington 34 
			 Doncaster 3 
			 Dorchester 29 
			 Dudley 2 
			 London E 3 
			 Exeter 26 
			 Falkirk 11 
			 Glasgow 8 
			 Gloucester 10 
			 Guildford 18 
			 Harrow 17 
			 Huddersfield 2 
			 Harrogate 1 
			 Hemel Hempstead 128 
			 Hereford 96 
			 Hull 9 
			 Halifax 4 
			 Ipswich 9 
			 Kilmarnock 3 
			 Kensington Upon Thames 5 
			 Liverpool 18 
			 Lancaster 14 
			 Lanrindodd Wells 2 
			 Leicester 7 
			 Llandudno 12 
			 Leeds 8 
			 Luton 5 
			 Manchester 4 
			 Milton Keynes 10 
			 London N 3 
			 Newcastle 5 
			 Nottingham 55 
			 Newport 9 
			 London NW 5 
			 Oldham 4 
			 Oxford 179 
			 Paisley 2 
			 Peterborough 3 
			 Plymouth 94 
			 Portsmouth 18 
			 Preston 10 
			 Reading 4 
			 Redhill 1 
			 Sheffield 11 
			 Swansea 15 
			 London SE 5 
			 Stevenage 3 
			 Stockport 7 
			 Slough 21 
			 Sutton 1 
			 Swindon 24 
			 Southampton 71 
			 Salisbury 56 
			 Sunderland 2 
			 Southend on Sea 1 
			 Stoke on Trent 4 
			 London SW 12 
			 Shrewsbury 6 
			 Taunton 18 
			 Berwick Upon Tweed 3 
			 Tonbridge 6 
			 Torquay 3 
			 Truro 32 
			 Middlesbrough 17 
			 Twickenham 3 
			 Uxbridge 4 
			 London W 12 
			 Warrington 4 
			 Watford 3 
			 Wakefield 1 
			 Wigan 1 
			 Worcester 5 
			 Walsall 1 
			 Wolverhampton 2 
			 York 25 
			 Shetland Islands 1 
			 Total 1,563 
		
	
	
		
			  SSSA 
			  Location  Number of properties 
			 Aberdeen 17 
			 Bath 169 
			 Belfast 3 
			 Berwick upon Tweed 2 
			 Birmingham 271 
			 Blackburn 6 
			 Blackpool 60 
			 Bolton 17 
			 Bournemouth 9 
			 Bradford 2 
			 Brighton 19 
			 Bristol 437 
			 Bromley 7 
			 Cambridge 45 
			 Canterbury 31 
			 Cardiff 52 
			 Carlisle 24 
			 Chelmsford 8 
			 Chester 36 
			 Colchester 132 
			 Coventry 30 
			 Crewe 3 
			 Croydon 9 
			 Darlington 87 
			 Dartford 3 
			 Derby 5 
			 Doncaster 8 
			 Dorchester 10 
			 Dudley 2 
			 Dumfries 3 
			 Dundee 29 
			 Durham 4 
			 Edinburgh 69 
			 Enfield 2 
			 Exeter 36 
			 Falkirk 24 
			 Glasgow 235 
			 Gloucester 39 
			 Guildford 168 
			 Halifax 2 
			 Harrow 11 
			 Harrogate 13 
			 Hemel Hempstead 4 
			 Hereford 146 
			 Huddersfield 2 
			 Hull 82 
			 Ilford 6 
			 Inverness 18 
			 Ipswich 87 
			 Kensington Upon Thames 16 
			 Kilmarnock 39 
			 Kirkcaldy 8 
			 Kirkwall 3 
			 Lancaster 151 
			 Lanrindodd Wells 34 
			 Leeds 35 
			 Leicester 24 
			 Lincoln 1 
			 Liverpool 72 
			 Llandudno 42 
			 London E 214 
			 London EC 10 
			 London N 32 
			 London NW 64 
			 London SE 180 
			 London SW 470 
			 London W 72 
			 London WC 1 
			 Luton 17 
			 Manchester 43 
			 Medway 5 
			 Middlesbrough 19 
			 Milton Keynes 33 
			 Motherwell 2 
			 Newcastle 92 
			 Newport 46 
			 Northampton 1 
			 Norwich 7 
			 Nottingham 26 
			 Oldham 3 
			 Oxford 28 
			 Paisley 7 
			 Perth 14 
			 Peterborough 9 
			 Plymouth 31 
			 Portsmouth 57 
			 Preston 47 
			 Reading 17 
			 Redhill 10 
			 Romford 6 
			 Salisbury 122 
			 Sheffield 38 
			 Shrewsbury 7 
			 Slough 23 
			 Southampton 26 
			 Southend On Sea 3 
			 Stevenage 6 
			 Stoke on Trent 13 
			 Stockport 4 
			 Sunderland 4 
			 Sutton 2 
			 Swansea 18 
			 Swindon 86 
			 Taunton 14 
			 Telford 8 
			 Tonbridge 47 
			 Torquay 2 
			 Truro 16 
			 Twickenham 63 
			 Uxbridge 1 
			 Wakefield 15 
			 Walsall 7 
			 Warrington 23 
			 Watford 5 
			 Wigan 3 
			 Wolverhampton 4 
			 Worcester 7 
			 York 61 
			 Total 5,100 
		
	
	The SSFA/SSSA figures represent a snapshot of properties held. The total number of SSFA and SSSA held fluctuates from day to day as leases are terminated or taken on.

Defence Academy: Finance

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the budget of the Defence Academy of the UK was in each year since 2002; and how much the Academy has spent in  (a) England,  (b) Wales,  (c) Northern Ireland,  (d) Scotland and  (e) overseas in each such year.

Bill Rammell: The Defence Academy's Operating cost for each financial year since 2002 is detailed in the following table.
	
		
			  Financial year  Net operating cost after interest (£) 
			 2002-03 98,183,234 
			 2003-04 97,098,893 
			 2004-05 91,389,435 
			 2005-06 128,385,106 
			 2006-07 120,256,279 
			 2007-08 129,695,219 
			 2008-09 128,022,500 
		
	
	The additional information relating to how much the Academy has spent in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and overseas in each year is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Met Office

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many meetings  (a) he and  (b) his officials have held with the Operational Efficiency Programme project team on the future of the Met Office; and when the next such meeting will take place.

Kevan Jones: The Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP) Met Office Review Group compromises officials from the Ministry of Defence, Shareholder Executive, HM Treasury and the Met Office. The review group meets regularly in undertaking the review. The next review group meeting is schedule for 27 November 2009.
	The Secretary of State for Defence is regularly briefed on the progress of the review.

Homelessness Street Counts

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what methodology his Department uses in undertaking homelessness street counts.

Ian Austin: Local authorities evaluate the extent of rough sleeping within their area in accordance with the methodology on street counts set out in CLG's 'Guidance on evaluating the extent of rough sleeping—2007 revision', which was developed in conjunction with the voluntary sector. The total number of rough sleepers found on street counts is published each September.

Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1131W, on non-domestic rates, whether the overall business rate tax yield in 2010-11 will be reduced in cash terms as a consequence of the -1.4 per cent. level of Retail Price Index inflation.

Barbara Follett: holding answer 26 October 2009
	Under schedule 7 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 the increases in the business rates multipliers each year are capped by the previous September's RPI. Under the same legislation, the multipliers will also be adjusted to ensure that the overall tax yield does not increase as a result of the 2010 revaluation. The September 2009 RPI of -1.4 per cent will exert a downward pressure on the multipliers and on 2010-11 rates bills, reducing the overall tax yield in cash terms.
	The five-yearly business rates revaluations make sure each business pays its fair contribution and no more by ensuring the share of the national rates bill paid by any one business reflects changes over time in the value of their property relative to others. The 2010 revaluation will not raise a single extra penny for Government.
	Over a million properties will see their business rate liabilities come down as a result of revaluation. The Government intend to put in place a £2 billion relief scheme to limit the impact on the minority with bill increases. This is on top of the wider support available to help ease business pressures including discounted rate bills for small businesses and deferring tax payments.

Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1131W, on non-domestic rates, whether he expects the downward pressure on multipliers as a result of the September 2009 Retail Price Index rate to result in an actual reduction in the multiplier of 1.4 per cent. in addition to the decrease in the multiplier due to the 2010 revaluation.

Barbara Follett: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The multipliers are set in accordance with schedule 7 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988. The increases in the small business rate multiplier each year are capped by the previous September's RPI. Under the same legislation, the multipliers will also be adjusted to ensure that the overall tax yield does not increase as a result of the 2010 revaluation.
	The national non-domestic multiplier, as in previous years, will be found by adding to the small business multiplier an amount to recover the cost of the small business rate relief scheme. The Government have no plans to amend the way that the multipliers are calculated.
	The five-yearly business rates revaluations make sure each business pays its fair contribution and no more by ensuring the share of the national rates bill paid by any one business reflects changes over time in the value of their property relative to others. The 2010 revaluation will not raise a single extra penny for Government.
	Over a million properties will see their business rate liabilities come down as a result of revaluation. The Government intend to put in place a £2 billion relief scheme to limit the impact on the minority with bill increases. This is on top of the wider support available to help ease business pressures including discounted rate bills for small businesses and deferring tax payments.

Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1131W, on non-domestic rates, what the  (a) standard and  (b) small business rate multiplier in 2010-11 in England is; on what date it was set; and whether it incorporates the 1.4 per cent reduction as a consequence of the September Retail Price Index rate.

Barbara Follett: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The multipliers are set in accordance with schedule 7 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988. The increases in the small business rate multiplier each year are capped by the previous September's RPI. Under the same legislation, the multipliers will also be adjusted to ensure that the overall tax yield does not increase as a result of the 2010 revaluation.
	The national non-domestic multiplier, as in previous years, will be found by adding to the small business multiplier an amount to recover the cost of the small business rate relief scheme. The Government have no plans to amend the way that the multipliers are calculated.
	The Department will publish the provisional multipliers in due course and these will be confirmed after the Local Government Settlement is confirmed in the New Year.

Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1131W, on non-domestic rates, whether the estimate of  (a) 41.3 pence for the small business multiplier in 2010 and  (b) 41.7 pence for the national non-domestic multiplier in 2010 cited on page 7 of his Department's consultation paper on transitional arrangements for the non-domestic rating revaluation 2010 in England will be revised downwards as a consequence of the -1.4 per cent. level of Retail Price Index inflation.

Barbara Follett: holding answer 26 October 2009
	Under schedule 7 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 the increases in the small business rate multiplier each year are capped by the previous September's RPI. Therefore the September 2009 RPI of -1.4 per cent will exert a downward pressure on the multipliers cited in the Department's consultation on transitional arrangements.
	The national non-domestic multiplier, as in previous years, will be found by adding to the small business multiplier an amount to recover the cost of the small business rate relief scheme.
	The five-yearly business rates revaluations make sure each business pays its fair contribution and no more by ensuring the share of the national rates bill paid by any one business reflects changes over time in the value of their property relative to others. The 2010 revaluation will not raise a single extra penny for Government.
	Over a million properties will see their business rate liabilities come down as a result of revaluation. The Government intend to put in place a £2 billion relief scheme to limit the impact on the minority with bill increases. This is on top of the wider support available to help ease business pressures including discounted rate bills for small businesses and deferring tax payments.

Non-domestic Rates: Religious Buildings

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 3 June 2009,  Official Report, column 591W, on non-domestic rates: religious buildings, in respect of which faith communities or religions the Registrar General has certified premises as places of religious worship.

Meg Hillier: I have been asked to reply.
	The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 provides for places of meeting for religious worship to be certified to the Registrar General. Under this Act the Registrar General records all places of meeting for religious worship certified to him. There are approximately 30,000 places of meeting for religious worship certified under the Act. The denominations are recorded as follows:
	Roman Catholic
	Methodist
	Congregationalist
	Baptist
	United Reformed
	Calvinistic Methodist
	Brethren
	Salvation Army
	Unitarian
	Society of Friends
	Jehovah's Witness
	Other Christian bodies
	Jews
	Muslim
	Sikh
	Hindu/s
	Undenominational
	Buddhists of the New Kadampa Traditional
	Baha'is
	Subud Britain
	Valmiks
	Followers of Guru Das
	Nirankaries
	Ravidasia
	Aetherius society
	Devotees of Krishna
	Friends of Western Buddhist order
	Antiochian Orthodox
	Congregation of Yahweh
	Das Dharam
	Gujarati
	Shree Swaminarayan Siddhant Sajivan Mandal
	Shri guru Ravidasia community
	Theosophists
	Ukraine Autocephalic
	Universal Order of Thios
	Unsectarian
	Who object to be designated by any distinctive appellation
	Zen Buddhists
	Buddhists
	Zoroastrians
	Brahma kumaris
	Jains
	Universal Confluence of Yoga and Vedanta Luminar
	Manjushri
	Nirankaries
	Raman
	Ramgarhia
	Radhan Soami Sagsang Beas-British Isles
	Sant Mat
	Sathya Sai Baha Devotees
	Sufis
	Sukyo Mahikari
	Swaminarayans
	Zen
	Anoopam
	Kshatryna Sabna London Bhagat Namdev Mission
	Maktar Tarighat Ovesyi Shamagh Soudi
	Navnat Vanit
	Anjuman-e-Mohibban-e-Ahlalbait
	Antiochian Orthodox Church
	Byelorussion Autocephalic Orthodox
	Disciples of Baba Gobind Daa Ji
	Eikoko Iesu No Mitama Kyokai
	Ekniwas

Pakistan

Bob Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government had discussions with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office prior to his meetings with the  (a) Prime Minister and  (b) President of Pakistan during his recent visit to that country.

Shahid Malik: holding answer 9 September 2009
	I travelled to Pakistan privately in August. While there I took the opportunity to meet Mr. Syed Yousef Gilani, the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I did not meet the President of Pakistan. I was in contact with FCO staff in Pakistan about this meeting.
	Travel to and from Pakistan, and domestic flights in Pakistan were paid for by me. Secure travel by road was provided by the Government of Pakistan.

Pakistan

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Dewsbury, travelled to Pakistan in an official capacity in August 2009 to meet the President and Prime Minister of that country.

Shahid Malik: I travelled to Pakistan privately in August. While there I took the opportunity to meet Mr. Syed Yousef Gilani, the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I did not meet the President of Pakistan. I was in contact with FCO staff in Pakistan about this meeting.
	Travel to and from Pakistan, and domestic flights in Pakistan were paid for by me. Secure travel by road was provided by the Government of Pakistan.

Regional Planning and Development

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  what bursary schemes his Department makes available to postgraduate students on  (a) spatial planning and  (b) other planning courses; how many students received such payments under each bursary in the last 12 months; and how much his Department spent on each scheme in each region in the last 12 months for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many  (a) spatial planning and  (b) other planning postgraduate students who received payments from bursary schemes provided by his Department went on to work in planning (i) in the public sector and (ii) in the private sector in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Ian Austin: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The 16 universities listed as follows offer Royal Town Planning Institute accredited courses and are thus eligible for the CLG bursary scheme.
	In 2008-09 92 out of 105 possible bursaries at 15 universities were awarded at a total cost of £894,062.
	In 2009-10 it is estimated that 154 will be awarded out of 176 bursaries at 16 universities at an estimated cost of £1,496,033.
	The allocations for each university are set out in the following table:
	
		
			 Number of students receiving bursary 
			  University  Region  Course  2008-09( 1)  2009-10( 2) 
			 Leeds Metropolitan YH MA Town & Regional Planning 7 11 
			 Sheffield YH MA Town & Regional Planning 7 11 
			 Sheffield Hallam YH MSc Urban & Regional Planning 7 11 
			 Liverpool JMU NW MSc Environmental Planning 4 7 
			 Liverpool NW Master of Civic Design 6 11 
			 Manchester NW Master of Planning 7 11 
			 Oxford Brookes SE MSc Spatial Planning 7 11 
			 Kingston SE Planning and Sustainability 1 4 
			 Reading SE Development Planning 7 11 
			 London South Bank L MA Planning Policy and Practice 6 9 
			 UCL L MSc Spatial Planning or MSc International Planning 7 11 
			 Westminster L MA Urban & Regional Planning 5 11 
			 West of England (UWE) SW MA Town and Country Planning 7 11 
			 Newcastle NE MSc Town Planning 7 11 
			 Birmingham City WM MA Spatial Planning 7 11 
			 Anglia Ruskin E MSc Town Planning n/a 2 
			 Total   92 154 
			 (1) 2008-09 Bursary = £9,240 (£3,240 fees, £6,000 stipend) (2 )2009-10 Bursary = £9,390 (£3,390 fees, £6,000 stipend) 
		
	
	Students have only been required to sign public service contracts since 2008-09 and as such we do not, as yet, have figures for the number of bursary recipients who went on to work (i) in the public sector and (ii) in the private sector. The 2008-09 students have only recently graduated and we will shortly be contacting them to inquire about their employment status.

British Council: Manpower

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people the British Council employs in  (a) the UK and  (b) overseas.

Chris Bryant: As published in the Annual Report for the British Council (2008-09) the numbers of permanent staff employed are as follows:
	 (a) In the UK—1,094
	 (b) Overseas—6,390 (including 1,815 teachers)

Visits Abroad

Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries  (a) he has and  (b) his Department's Ministers have visited on official capacity since November 2008; on what dates each such visit took place; and if he will make a statement.

Chris Bryant: The Cabinet Office publishes an annual list of overseas travel by Ministers costing in excess of £500.
	A list of all overseas visits undertaken by Ministers costing £500 or more during the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 was published in July 2009. The list provides details of the date, destination and purpose of all such visits and the cost of Ministers' travel and accommodation where appropriate. Copies of the list have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
	A list of overseas visits undertaken by Ministers in the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 will be published in due course. All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code.

Care Homes: Standards

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of care homes for  (a) younger adults and  (b) older people met or exceeded (i) National Minimum Standard 8, (ii) National Minimum Standard 15 and (iii) both standards in each year since 2002-03.

Phil Hope: We are informed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that the percentages of care homes meeting or exceeding the requested national minimum standards in each year between 2002-03 and 2008-09—the latest year for which information is available—were as shown in the following tables.
	
		
			  Percentages of services meeting or exceeding individual national minimum standards (NMS)—care homes for younger adults—since 2002-03 
			  NMS  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 8. Participation 65 82 89 90 90 91 91 
			 15. Relationships 91 95 97 98 98 98 98 
			 Both standards met or exceeded 61 76 84 82 79 78 76 
			  Note: Percentages are based on the most recent score for each standard as at 31 March in each year. The year shown is not necessarily the year of inspection; not every standard is inspected every year and not every service is inspected annually.  Source: CQC database 
		
	
	
		
			  Percentages of services meeting or exceeding individual national minimum standards (NMS)—care homes for older people—since 2002-03 
			  NMS  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 8. Healthcare 73 78 78 78 79 83 86 
			 15. Meals and mealtimes 78 82 84 85 86 88 89 
			 Both standards met or exceeded 62 67 70 69 71 76 79 
			  Note: Percentages are based on the most recent score for each standard as at 31 March in each year. The year shown is not necessarily the year of inspection; not every standard is inspected every year and not every service is inspected annually.  Source: CQC database

Community Care

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults in each age band received support under section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 in  (a) 2007,  (b) 2008 and  (c) 2009.

Phil Hope: The information is contained in the following table.
	
		
			  The total number of clients aged 18 and over in receipt of local authority funded community based services, by age band, as at 31 March. 
			  Rounded 
			   Community based services 
			  At 31 March  Age 18 to 64  Age 65 to 74  Age 75 and over  Total 
			 2007(1) 376,300 131,700 514,800 1,022,900 
			 2008 395,000 139,100 522,300 1,056,300 
			 2009(2) 401,400 135,800 509,900 1,047,100 
			 (1 )In 2007 "overnight respite—client's home" was included within community based services provided to clients, from 2008 all respite care is now recorded as a service for carers rather than clients and is therefore not included in this data. (2 )Data for 2008-09 are provisional.  Source:  Referral, Assessments and Packages of Care form P2s

HIV Infection

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that future funding for social services provision for HIV positive people takes account of  (a) inflation and  (b) predicted numbers of people diagnosed with HIV in the future.

Gillian Merron: Following the 2007 comprehensive spending review, the AIDS Support Grant, which provides a contribution towards the social care and support of people with HIV, was increased from £16.5 million, to £19.8 million in 2008-09, £21.8 million in 2009-10 and £25.5 million in 2010-11. Decisions on allocations beyond this period have not yet been made.
	The AIDS Support Grant is allocated to individual authorities based on their HIV caseloads, updated annually, with a weighting of 30 per cent. towards women and children affected or infected by HIV. This recognises the increasing pressure of HIV among these groups.

NHS: Negligence

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2009,  Official Report, column 176W, on NHS: negligence, how much was spent in total on  (a) claimant costs,  (b) defence costs and  (c) damages for (i) the closed claims in which claimant costs exceeded damages and (ii) all closed claims in each year.

Ann Keen: Following an internal review by the NHS Litigation Authority, an error was detected in Table 2 of the answer of 12 October 2009,  Official Report, columns 736-37W, on NHS: Negligence. The following tables correct that error and provide the additional data requested.
	
		
			  Table 1: Payments made on clinical negligence claims where claimant costs were greater than the damages paid on claims closed 2004-05 to 2008-09 as at 30 August 2009 
			  £ 
			  Year of closure  Damages  paid  Defence costs paid  Claimant  c osts paid 
			 2004-05 9,824,545 8,591,362 17,105,723 
			 2005-06 10,957,214 8,475,960 19,786,927 
			 2006-07 11,857,076 8,345,493 20,668,200 
			 2007-08 18,385,285 11,371,170 31,878,502 
			 2008-09 16,949,494 9,786,706 31,553,118 
			 Total 67,973,614 46,570,691 120,992,471 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Payments made on all other clinical negligence claims closed 2004-05 to 2008-09 as at 30 August 2009 
			  £ 
			  Year of closure  Damages paid  Defence costs paid  Claimant costs paid 
			 2004-05 358,508,722 43,504,736 58,017,881 
			 2005-06 353,351,141 39,468,081 60,943,948 
			 2006-07 275,848,011 33,366,925 53,294,121 
			 2007-08 332,052,942 40,111,830 67,590,234 
			 2008-09 289,238,325 36,480,285 69,616,778 
			 Total 1,608,999,141 192,931,858 309,462,963 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3: Payments made on all clinical negligence claims closed 2004-05 to 2008-09 as at 30 August 2009 
			  £ 
			  Year of closure  Damages paid  Defence costs paid  Claimant costs paid 
			 2004-05 368,333,267 52,096,098 75,123,605 
			 2005-06 364,308,355 47,944,041 80,730,875 
			 2006-07 287,705,087 41,712,419 73,962,321 
			 2007-08 350,438,228 51,483,000 99,468,737 
			 2008-09 306,187,819 46,266,991 101,169,896 
			 Total 1,676,972,755 239,502,548 430,455,434

NHS: Negligence

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many unsuccessful clinical negligence claims were brought against the NHS in each year since 1997-98 for which figures are available; and how much unsuccessful claimants spent in  (a) defence costs and  (b) claimant costs in each year.

Ann Keen: The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) only records data relating to members of its; schemes, which include all primary care trusts, national health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts.
	For unsuccessful claims, not all defence costs are recovered from claimants. This may be because the claimant was funded by the Legal Services Commission or if the claimant does not have the resource to pay costs. The NHSLA does not specifically record defence costs recovered from claimants and to obtain this information would be at disproportionate cost. However, as an alternative, the NHSLA have provided information on defence costs of unsuccessful claims in the following table.
	Defence Costs paid on all clinical negligence claims closed 2004-05 to 2008-09 with nil damages as at 30 August 2009
	
		
			  Closure  Number of claims  Defence costs paid (£) 
			 2004-05 4,033 13,166,895 
			 2005-06 3,040 9,320,411 
			 2006-07 2,910 9,183,562 
			 2007-08 2,650 10,748,887 
			 2008-09 2,338 8,112,917 
			 Total: 14,971 50,532,671 
		
	
	The NHSLA does not record data relating to claimant costs in unsuccessful cases as it does not make payment on these costs and the claimant is not obliged to disclose the information to the defendant.

Social Services

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults in each age band received support under section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 in  (a) 2007,  (b) 2008 and  (c) 2009.

Phil Hope: Section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 empowers local authorities to support people in residential and nursing care homes. Data on the number of adults aged 18 and over in local authority supported registered residential and nursing care is collected and published by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care via the Supported Residents (SR1) return. Information is collected for the age groups 18 to 64 and 65 and over.
	The following table shows the number of adults aged 18 and over in local authority supported registered residential and nursing care as at 31 March 2007 and 2008. Information for 2009 is expected to be published in early 2010.
	
		
			  Total numbers of clients aged 18 and over in receipt of local authority funded residential or nursing care in England as at 31 March 
			  Rounded numbers 
			   Total of all supported residents 
			   18 to 64  65 and over  Totals 
			 2007 56,100 191,200 247,300 
			 2008 53,900 182,200 236,100 
			 Source: NHS Information Centre—SR1 return, table 1.

Burma: Human Rights

Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Burma; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Foster: Humanitarian conditions are poor throughout Burma. A third of the population (16.5 million people) lives on less than 16p a day. Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS are serious health risks. Half of Burma's 20 million children do not complete primary school. About 140,000 Burmese refugees are sheltering in camps in Thailand, and many displaced people inside Burma live in extreme poverty. Conditions remain precarious in parts of the Irrawaddy Delta struck by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008.
	In response to these humanitarian needs, the Department for International Development (DFID) is increasing its programme in Burma from £12.5 million in 2008-09 to £25 million this financial year and £28 million in 2010-11. In 2008-09, DFID also provided £45 million in emergency aid following Cyclone Nargis.
	UK aid for Burma is channelled through the United Nations and non-governmental organisations, not through the Burmese central government. It is monitored closely by DFID staff based in Burma. We are encouraging other donors to follow our example and expand their aid programmes in Burma.

St. Helena: Airports

Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent progress has been made on reaching a decision regarding the construction of an airport on St Helena; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Foster: The Department for International Development has recently carried out a public consultation on the most appropriate option for access to St. Helena. The consultation report will be published shortly.

Local Government: Assets

Richard Spring: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the net average monetary value of assets purchased by local authorities over the last 20 years.

Liam Byrne: From the years 1989-90 to 2008-09, according to the Office for National Statistics, the net value of assets purchased by local authorities was on average £4 billion a year (net of asset sales and depreciation). This figure excludes capital grants.

Personal Income

Hilary Armstrong: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of households with an annual income of below £50,000  (a) in total and  (b) with children under the age of 16 whose income is expected to exceed this level in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

Stephen Timms: No such estimates have been made. Related information, covering analysis of the income distribution in 2007-08, can be found in "Households Below Average Income", published by the Department for Work and Pensions and available at the following link.
	http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai.asp

Renewable Energy

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the breakdown is of Government spending on renewable energy estimated in the Pre-Budget Report to be £5.8 billion over the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review.

David Kidney: The 2008 pre-Budget report stated that Government policies are driving £50 billion of investment in the low-carbon sector over three years to 2011.
	This brings together Government spending, fiscal support and private investment driven by Government regulation in energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and public transport.
	While the report did not provide a specific estimate of the level of renewables investment driven by Government policies, we estimated it to be approximately £5.8 billion.
	This estimate was based on the additional investment driven by changes to the Renewable Obligation (RO). Approximately a quarter of this additional investment resulted directly from the increase in the level of RO support with the remainder coming from increased private sector investment resulting from the changes.
	This represented a highly conservative estimate of the impact of the Government's renewable policies on investment over the CSR period. For example, it did not include:
	the impact on investment resulting from the existing RO support already in place before 2008; and
	support for renewables investment through the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and 'R and D tax credits' for low carbon R and D.

Renewable Energy: Food

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to paragraph 170 of the impact assessment for the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009, by how much he expects  (a) food and  (b) biomass prices to rise as a consequence of implementation of the strategy.

David Kidney: As we stated in the impact assessment, Government have not quantified the impacts on food prices and biomass for the rural sector. For the purpose of modelling the impact of the Renewable Energy Strategy, we used different scenarios for future biomass costs—both increasing and decreasing over time—to reflect the range of uncertainty involved (E4Tech (2009) Biomass supply curve for the UK). Future biomass prices are likely to be driven by global supply and demand trends as well as developments in the UK market.

Solar Power: East Midlands

Patrick McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much funding his Department has allocated to promoting take-up of solar panel usage in  (a) West Derbyshire and  (b) the East Midlands since it was established; and if he will make a statement.

David Kidney: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP) which is our £131 million grant programme offering funding for small scale onsite energy technologies to householders, public, community and not-for profit-sectors. Solar PV has benefited significantly under the programme. To date we have committed over £44 million to solar PV installations under the programme.
	The amount of funding that has been allocated and paid in West Derbyshire and the East Midlands is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Low carbon buildings programme Phase 1: Solar PV 
			   All  a llocated  Currently  c ommitted  Paid 
			  Householders
			 East Midlands 572,378.22 513,106.22 335,086. 22 
			 West Derbyshire 19,572.00 17,500.00 0.00 
			  Communities
			 East Midlands 21,581.28 0.00 0.00 
			 West Derbyshire 0.00 0.00 0.00 
			  Stream 2A
			 East Midlands 114,743.25 54,419.85 44,287.45 
			 West Derbyshire 26,922.60 9,869.60 9,869.60 
			  Stream 2B
			 East Midlands 54,469.00 0.00 0.00 
			 West Derbyshire 0.00 0.00 0.00 
			  Solar Thermal
			  Householders
			 East Midlands 237,654.00 183,200.00 163,200.00 
			 West Derbyshire 5,200.00 4,800.00 4,000.00 
			  Communities
			 East Midlands 39,880. 55 35,388.00 35,388.00 
			 West Derbyshire 0.00 0.00 0.00 
			  Stream 2A
			 East Midlands 36,445.75 36,445.75 26,042.15 
			 West Derbyshire 0.00 0.00 0.00 
			  Stream 2B
			 East Midlands 26,454.00 0.00 0.00 
			 West Derbyshire 0.00 0.00 0.00 
		
	
	
		
			  Low carbon buildings programme Phase 2: Solar PV 
			   Allocated  Paid 
			  Derbyshire   
			 LCBP2 505,413 220,628 
			 LCBP2e 51,082 — 
			
			  Solar Thermal   
			  Derbyshire   
			 LCBP2 35,226 5,985 
			 LCBP2e 51,082 7,034,98 
			
			  Solar PV   
			  East Midland   
			 LCBP2 1,329,544 590,110 
			 LCBP2e 199,051.65 — 
			
			  Solar Thermal   
			  East Midland   
			 LCBP2 761,126 104,903 
			 LCBP2e 121,438.83 — 
			  121,438.83 — 
		
	
	We will be implementing a nationwide awareness raising campaign in November with a series of 'road shows' that are scheduled to take place in November 2009 in all English Regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
	The Government are working with the Energy Saving Trust to promote the Low Carbon Buildings Programme household funding stream, raising awareness of the funds that remain available to successful applicants. To date, we have used both their advice network and market segmentation models to target those that are most likely to install microgeneration technologies and apply for grants.
	We have set up a network of local energy advice centres providing information and advice and set up an Act on CO2 helpline and website to inform and assist consumers
	We are working with Building Research Establishment, the programme manager for Phase 2 of the LCBP, to deliver a series of regional events and a positive marketing programme to promote the programme to eligible organisations.

Warm Front Scheme: Leeds

John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households in Leeds West constituency had received grants under the Warm Front scheme at the latest date for which figures are available; and what the average additional amount paid by such householders was for services provided under the scheme.

David Kidney: The Warm Front Scheme assisted 1,660 households in the Leeds, West constituency between 1 June 2005 and 24 August 2009.
	Of these, 228 installations required a contribution, the average value of which was £243.19.
	Figures prior to June 2005 are not available.

Animal Experiments: Scotland

Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the primary purpose was of each  (a) procedure and  (b) field of research carried out on animals in Scotland in 2008 under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 involving (i) fish, (ii) pigs and (iii) genetically modified animals; and what the reasons were for the increase in the number of procedures carried out on (A) fish, (B) pigs and (C) genetically modified animals in Scotland in that year in relation to the previous year.

Meg Hillier: The information available is provided in the following tables. Data by primary purpose are provided for both 2007 and 2008 to indicate the reasons for increases, i.e. in which primary purposes the numbers of procedures increased. The overall level of scientific procedures is determined by a number of factors, including the economic climate and global trends in scientific endeavour. Data by field of research are only collected for non-toxicological procedures.
	Information relating to each individual procedure is not available, to protect statistical confidentiality, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
	
		
			  Scientific procedures by species of animal and primary purpose of the procedure, Scotland 2008 and 2007 
			  Number of procedures 
			   Pig  Fish  GM Animals( 1) 
			   2008  2007  2008  2007  2008  2007 
			 Fundamental biological research 372 362 171,489 36,812 70,229 74,056 
			 Applied studies—human medicine or dentistry 158 149 58 — 2,373 2,792 
			 Applied studies—veterinary medicine 219 191 7,224 11,263 — 19 
			 Protection of man, animals or the environment — — 996 1,742 — 11 
			 Education — — — — — — 
			 Training — — — — — — 
			 Direct diagnosis — — — — 4 15 
			 Breeding 134 63 4,668 1,772 104,739 74,295 
			 Total 883 765 184,435 51,589 177,345 151,188 
			 (1) GM animals totals includes procedures using mice, rats, pigs, domestic fowl, fish. 
		
	
	
		
			  Scientific procedures (non-toxicology) by field of research, Scotland 2008 
			  Number of procedures 
			   Pig  Fish  GM Animals( 1) 
			 Anatomy 134 5,788 21,096 
			 Physiology 212 135,545 16,794 
			 Biochemistry — — 7,583 
			 Psychology — 1,144 2,857 
			 Pathology — 1,221 5,831 
			 Immunology 90 1,507 39,543 
			 Microbiology 38 3,605 406 
			 Parasitology — 2,132 185 
			 Pharmacology 18 — 5,136 
			 Pharmaceutical R and D 4 — 2,372 
			 Therapeutics 30 — 2,325 
			 Clinical medicine — — 840 
			 Clinical surgery — — 48 
			 Genetics — 1,380 9,178 
			 Molecular biology — 320 12,579 
			 Cancer research — 1,473 43,296 
			 Nutrition — 332 150 
			 Zoology — 662 — 
			 Botany — — — 
			 Animal Science — — 6,409 
			 Ecology — 24 — 
			 Animal welfare 52 — — 
			 Other purpose — 23,224 147 
			 Total 578 178,357 176,775 
			 (1) GM animals totals includes procedures using mice, rats, pigs, domestic fowl, fish.

Antisocial Behaviour

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  how many neighbourhood policing action squads have been established to tackle anti-social behaviour;
	(2)  what steps his Department has taken to meet the Government's new objectives for neighbourhood policing teams in relation to anti-social behaviour.

Alan Johnson: Neighbourhood policing is central to providing a police service that is responsive to local crime and antisocial behaviour (ASB) concerns. Since 2002 we have invested over £1 billion to ensure that there is now a neighbourhood policing team in every neighbourhood, including over 13,500 officers and 16,000 PCSOs, with a range of tools and powers to deal with ASB. These teams engage with their local communities to understand their concerns—which will usually include ASB—and work with partners to address them. Between March 2008 and March 2009 public confidence that police and local agencies are dealing with local crime and ASB matters has increased from 45 per cent. to 49 per cent.
	In December 2008, we introduced the policing pledge, which outlines commitments that the police service have made to the public, including minimum response times, holding monthly meetings to understand local concerns, providing monthly updates on action taken to deal with those concerns and visiting victims of crime. I welcome the recent inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) of the delivery of the pledge, in each police force ensuring that the public know how well their force is doing. Police authorities and forces are now working to respond to the challenge this has set them.
	The Government are clear that there is more to be done. On 13 October I announced a package of measures to improve the collective response to ASB. This includes extra support for victims of antisocial behaviour and a crackdown on those that breach ASBOs and new local minimum service standards agreed with the public that outline what they should expect from councils, police and social landlords to deal with intimidation.
	In 62 priority CDRPs, support and advice will be provided from a Home Office regional delivery manager, supported by the ASB action squad of expert practitioners, to make sure that the police, councils and housing are working together effectively to tackle ASB. All 62 partnerships have had face to face meetings, five partnerships have already been visited to begin the assessment process and the remaining 57 are due to be visited in the next six weeks.
	The forthcoming Policing White Paper will set out the next steps on neighbourhood policing.

DNA: Databases

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of  (a) white,  (b) black and  (c) Asian (i) men and (b) women aged (A) 10 to 15, (B) 16 to 17 and (C) 18 or more years old were on the national DNA database in each year since 2001.

Alan Johnson: The national DNA database (NDNAD) is constantly changing as profiles are added and deleted. It is not possible to produce information retrospectively on the state of the database in past years, unless this was collected by statistics produced at the time. The information sought on the number of those on the NDNAD by the ethnicity, gender and age groups specified is available for 31 March 2009 and 31 March 2008 and is provided in table 1. Some information is also available for 31 March 2007, and is provided in table 2. The information sought is not available for years before 2007.
	The tables show the number of profiles held, which is not the same as the number of individuals. This is because some profiles are replicates i.e. more than one profile is held for one individual. This may occur if, for example, an individual gives different names, or different versions of their name, on separate arrests. As at 31 March 2009, the replication rate on the NDNAD as a whole was 13.5 per cent. The tables show data on profiles loaded by all police forces.
	It is not possible to calculate accurately the proportion of members of ethnic groups in the population as a whole who are on the NDNAD because the data held on the NDNAD are not directly comparable with census population data. The NDNAD does not hold self-reported ethnicity data on arrested persons who have a DNA sample taken, but on their 'ethnic appearance'. The ethnic appearance data is based on the judgment of the police officer and is recorded for police intelligence purposes to assist in subsequent identification. It uses six broad ethnic categories (plus 'unknown') whereas census data is based on 16 ethnic groups self-reported by individuals.
	
		
			  Table 1 
			  Gender  Ethnic appearance  Current age as at 31 March 2009  Profiles retained at 31 March 2009  Current age as at 31 March 2008  Profiles retained at 31 March 2008 
			  Female Unknown 10-15 1,855 10-15 2,929 
			   16-17 4,116 16-17 5,099 
			   18+ 89,878 18+ 83,266 
			  Asian 10-15 914 10-15 888 
			   16-17 1,598 16-17 1,384 
			   18+ 33,839 18+ 27,807 
			  Black 10-15 2,859 10-15 2,902 
			   16-17 4,274 16-17 4,109 
			   18+ 76,008 18+ 63,843 
			  Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian 10-15 83 10-15 93 
			   16-17 203 16-17 199 
			   18+ 9,340 18+ 7,472 
			  Middle Eastern 10-15 70 10-15 50 
			   16-17 89 16-17 84 
			   18+ 3,290 18+ 2,689 
			  White—North European 10-15 32,912 10-15 36,756 
			   16-17 52,699 16-17 53,528 
			   18+ 813,093 18+ 701,320 
			  White—South European 10-15 636 10-15 617 
			   16-17 868 16-17 721 
			   18+ 17,621 18+ 14,330 
			   
			  Male Unknown 10-15 4,537 10-15 7,313 
			   16-17 10,139 16-17 13,538 
			   18+ 382,983 18+ 360,727 
			  Asian 10-15 4,314 10-15 4,281 
			   16-17 7,625 16-17 7,275 
			   18+ 244,229 18+ 208,640 
			  Black 10-15 7,277 10-15 7,038 
			   16-17 11,242 16-17 11,062 
			   18+ 310,471 18+ 274,282 
			  Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian 10-15 216 10-15 197 
			   16-17 443 16-17 378 
			   18+ 25,019 18+ 20,168 
			  Middle Eastern 10-15 500 10-15 323 
			   16-17 999 16-17 739 
			   18+ 36,300 18+ 30,467 
			  White—North European 10-15 72,265 10-15 81,248 
			   16-17 109,096 16-17 114,249 
			   18+ 3,115,325 18+ 2,790,097 
			  White—South European 10-15 1,335 10-15 1,187 
			   16-17 1,921 16-17 1,690 
			   18+ 82,818 18+ 70,090 
			   
			  Gender not recorded Unknown 10-15 45 10-15 46 
			   16-17 73 16-17 258 
			   18+ 34,449 18+ 34,460 
			  Asian 10-15 18 10-15 17 
			   16-17 34 16-17 48 
			   18+ 591 18+ 476 
			  Black 10-15 44 10-15 26 
			   16-17 33 16-17 34 
			   18+ 487 18+ 376 
			  Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian 10-15 1 10-15 1 
			   16-17 2 16-17 2 
			   18+ 83 18+ 72 
			  Middle Eastern 10-15 1 10-15 1 
			   16-17 4 16-17 2 
			   18+ 106 18+ 94 
			  White—North European 10-15 336 10-15 419 
			   16-17 458 16-17 475 
			   18+ 4,868 18+ 4,289 
			  White—South European 10-15 11 10-15 9 
			   16-17 5 16-17 11 
			   18+ 164 18+ 122 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2 
			  Data as at 31 March 2007  Profiles retained 
			  Current age as at 31 March 2007  
			 10-15 151,882 
			 16-17 206,449 
			 18+ 4,069,684 
			   
			   
			  Ethnic appearance (not including those with gender not recorded)  
			 Unknown 415,793 
			 Asian 210,801 
			 Black 315,779 
			 Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian 22,803 
			 Middle Eastern 29,261 
			 White—North European 3,316,161 
			 White—South European 78,219 
			   
			  Gender  
			 Male 3,524,657 
			 Female 864,160

Fixed Penalties

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department has issued on  (a) the use of fixed penalty notices and  (b) the level of fines issued by fixed penalty for (i) shoplifting, (ii) sexual offences and (iii) household waste offences.

Claire Ward: I have been asked to reply.
	The Secretary of State for Justice issued revised operational guidance to police forces on 16 July 2009, restricting the use of penalty notices for disorder for shop theft to first-time offenders who are not substance abusers, where the value of the goods is less than £100, and normally where the goods have been recovered. The guidance can be found at
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/criminal-justice-police-act-retail-pnd.htm
	The level of the penalty is fixed by law at £80 for adults and £40 for juveniles.
	Fixed penalty notices cannot be issued for sexual offences.
	Following the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, DEFRA issued guidance on the use of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for a range of offences, including those related to waste receptacles. A link to the guidance, as well as additional information on environmental FPNS is as follows.
	http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/local/legislation/fpn/index.htm

Identity Cards: Costs

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of the  (a) design and  (b) development of identity cards was in each of the last eight years.

Meg Hillier: Since the merger of the Home Office Identity Cards programme and the UK Passport Service to create the Identity and Passport Service on 1 April 2006, projects to deliver passports including facial images and fingerprints, identity cards and other improvements have been necessarily combined. As much of the technology and operational processes needed to implement identity cards are also required for the implementation of these new passports, this is the most cost-effective way to deliver these initiatives.
	Much of the work conducted by Identity and Passport Service cannot be categorised, either financially or operationally, as contributing towards either the introduction of passports with facial images and fingerprints or identity cards alone. The work is accounted for as future development projects. Total spend since April 2006 to September 2009 on future development projects encompassing the NIS is £216 million. The spend on future development projects in the 2006-07 financial year amounted to £30.9 million. The costs accounted for as future development projects in the 2007-08 financial year were £61.7 million, £81.5 million in 2008-09 and approximately £42 million for the period April to September 2009.
	Between the financial years 2003-04 and 2005-06, £41.1 million was spent by the Home Office Identity Cards programme in total.

Passports: Fees and Charges

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average  (a) overseas passport fee,  (b) delivery charge and  (c) issue time in days was for renewing a British passport for British citizens resident in each country of the European Union in the latest period for which information is available.

Chris Bryant: I have been asked to reply.
	Straightforward passports must be issued within 10 working days of receipt of the application. Since rationalising the European network and creating three centres of excellence, 96 per cent. of straightforward applications have been issued within this target.
	The cost of passports both in the UK and overseas increased with effect from 3 September 2009. The overseas fees are as follows:
	32-page adult passport: £124.50
	32-page child (under-16) passport: £79.50
	48-page 'jumbo' passport: £150.50
	Emergency passport: £69.00
	Emergency travel document/temporary passport: £89.00.
	The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) issues fewer than 400,000 passports a year from about 60 locations and under HM Treasury rules must recover the full costs of issuing through the passport fee.
	The passport fees are calculated on the basis of the cost of staff, accommodation and overheads involved proportionate to the average time taken worldwide to perform the service. The calculations are carefully scrutinised by the Treasury, approved by the Privy Council and laid before Parliament.
	Fees are set in London in sterling and collected overseas in various currencies depending on the location of the service. The rates of exchange used to calculate the local fee rates allows each overseas Post a small variance to ensure that, in countries where the exchange rate dramatically changes on a daily basis, the embassy does not have to amend its rates daily. The rates of exchange are scrutinised regularly to ensure that Posts do not exceed this.
	For passport applicants applying by post, the average cost of courier delivery varies from country to country and ranges from £7 to £40 depending on location. Customers living in remote locations tend to have to pay more.
	We have a consular business target that 90 per cent. of applications are issued within this processing target. The time it takes the courier to return the new passport to the customer, which in Europe averages two to three working days, is not part of the 10-day target.

Academies: Finance

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in respect of which academy schools committed sponsorship has not been  (a) wholly and  (b) partially received in each of the last five years.

Diana Johnson: There are two types of sponsorship payments for academies: "Traditional Procurement" and "Endowment Model". In the case of "Traditional Procurement Academies", the timing of the receipt of cash sponsorship varies from academy to academy and is agreed as part of the funding agreement between the Department and the academy. In the case of the "Endowment Model", receipts commence only after the academy has opened, and usually over a period of five years. Payments are not required on an annual basis and the question has therefore been answered as set out below.
	The answer contains two tables. The first, headed "Traditional Procurement Academies" shows for each academy where sponsorship is a contribution to capital costs, the total pledged, the amount for which the Department has evidence of receipt, and the amount still expected. In some cases further sponsorship payments may have already been received by the academy trust but not yet reported to the Department. The second table, headed "Endowment Sponsorship Academies" shows for each academy where sponsorship is in the form of contributions to an endowment fund, the amounts pledged, the amounts reported so far to the Department as received and the amount still expected. As with the first category, there may be cases where further sponsorship has already been received by the academy trust but not yet reported to the Department.
	
		
			  Table 1: Traditional Procurement Academies 
			  £000 
			  Academy  Total sponsorship pledged  Total confirmed capital contribution from sponsor as at 24 October 2009  Amount still expected 
			 Manchester 2.00C 1,614 386 
			 Lambeth 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Northampton 2,000 1,648 352 
			 Paddington(1) 1,500 642 858 
			 Salford(1) 1,600 214 1,386 
			 Barnsley(1) 1,500 27 1,473 
			 Walthamstow(1) 1,500 27 1,473 
			 Sheffield Springs 1,500 1,500 0 
			 Sheffield Park 1,000 1,000 0 
			 Stockport(1) 1,500 202 1,298 
			 Manchester William Hulme(1) 950 0 950 
			 North Oxfordshire 1,500 1,536 -36 
			 Swindon 1,500 300 1,200 
			 Peckham 2,000 2,986 -986 
			 Harris Academy South Norwood 2,000 250 1,750 
			 Harris Bermondsey 1,500 493 1,007 
			 Harris Merton 500 0 500 
			 Harris Girls—East Dulwich 500 0 500 
			 Harris Boys—East Dulwich 1,000 0 1,000 
			 Harris Crystal Palace 1,000 0 1,000 
			 The King's Academy 2,000 2,006 -6 
			 Trinity, Doncaster 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Bede Academy 1,500 0 1,500 
			 Haberdashers'—Hatcham 705 705 0 
			 Haberdashers'—Knights 296 296 0 
			 Marlowe 2,735 2,735 0 
			 Folkestone 2,250 1,516 734 
			 Walsall 2,500 2,565 -65 
			 Sandwell 2,794 2,743 51 
			 Telford Madeley 2,000 1,000 1,000 
			 Grace, Solihull 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Coventry Grace Academy 2,000 0 2,000 
			 Enfield 2,000 308 1,692 
			 OASIS—Immingham 2,000 0 2,000 
			 OASIS—Wintringham 2,000 0 2,000 
			 Burlington Danes 1,500 1,500 0 
			 Lambeth 2 Evelyn Grace 2,500 1,000 1,500 
			 Southwark 4 Globe 1,500 1,000 500 
			 Westminster King Solomon 1,500 1,500 0 
			 Bexley 2,410 2,462 -52 
			 Greig 2,000 1,930 70 
			 Unity 2,000 1,948 52 
			 Capital City, Brent 2,000 1,993 7 
			 City of London Southwark 2,000 2,000 0 
			 City Academy, Bristol 2,499 1,670 829 
			 West London, Ealing 2,000 2,000 0 
			 London, Barnet 1,500 1.49C 10 
			 Mossbourne 2,150 1,745 405 
			 Stockley 2,000 1,952 47 
			 St. Francis of Assisi 2,000 1,187 813 
			 The Harefield 1,500 696 804 
			 Dixons CTC 651 975 -324 
			 David Young, Leeds 1,500 1,000 500 
			 Westminster 1,500 1,200 300 
			 Thomas Deacon 2,000 1,970 30 
			 St. Paul's—Greenwich 2,000 200 1,800 
			 John Madejski, Reading 2,000 2,000 0 
			 The Bridge, Hackney 2,000 2,001 -1 
			 Samworth Enterprise 2,443 2,063 380 
			 Petchey 2,000 2,024 -24 
			 North Liverpool 1,000 1,000 0 
			 Bradford Cathedral 1,000 0 1,000 
			 Macmillan 1,250 450 800 
			 Djanogly 0 0 0 
			 St. Matthew Lewisham 2,100 2,100 0 
			 Slough Langley 2,033 2,033 0 
			 Leigh Technology 2,275 2,275 0 
			 St. Mary Magdalene—Islington 2,000 1,500 500 
			 Bristol—Withywood 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Newcastle Excelsior 2,000 2,459 -459 
			 Corby City 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Ashcroft Technology 960 860 100 
			 Landau Forte College 460 462 -2 
			 Q3—Sandwell 2,000 750 1,250 
			 The Chelsea Science Academy 4,000 2,000 2,000 
			 Brooke Weston 468 423 45 
			 John Cabot 378 317 61 
			 Liverpool Belvedere 1,102 1,102 0 
			 City of London KPMG Academy 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Islington—COLA (I) 2,000 2,000 0 
			 Sandwell—RSA 1,500 0 1,500 
			 Darwen Aldridge 2,000 0 2,000 
			 Wren Academy (Barnet) 500 500 0 
			 JCB Academy 1,750 50 1,700 
			 Kingshurst 1,338 0 1,338 
			 Bacons 0 0 0 
			 Hereford Steiner 918 0 918 
			 St. Mark's Academy—Merton 533 0 533 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,000 0 1,000 
			 Gateway (Thurrock) 0 0 0 
			 (1) Sponsorship pledged is based on 'reasonable endeavours'. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Endowment Sponsorship Academies( 1) 
			  £ 
			  Academy  Total pledge  Actuals paid  Amount still expected 
			 Barnfield South Academy 2,000,000 100,000 1,900,000 
			 Barnfield West Academy 2,000,000 100,000 1,900,000 
			 St. Aidan's CE Academy ( Eastbourne) 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 George Salter Collegiate Academy 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Havelock Academy 2,000,000 500,000 1,500,000 
			 Marsh Academy 850,000 750,000 100,000 
			 New Line Learning Academy 1,500,000 650,000 850,000 
			 St. Michael and All Angels CE Academy 2,000,000 500,000 1,500,000 
			 Spires Academy 500,000 0 500,000 
			 Walworth Academy 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Abraham Darby Academy 750,000 0 750,000 
			 Academy 360 2,250,000 2,000,000 250,000 
			 Archbishop Sentamu Academy 250,000 0 250,000 
			 The Hereford Academy 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 New Charter Academy 2,000,000 2,000,000 0 
			 Oasis Academy Bristol Hengrove 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Oasis Academy Media City: UK Salford 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Priory Federation of Academies 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 Richard Rose Federation 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 RSA Academy at Tipton 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Samworth Church Academy, Nottingham 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 St. Lawrence Academy 750,000 0 750,000 
			 West Lakes Academy 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 All Saints 750.000 0 750.000 
			 Castle View Enterprise Academy 1,350,000 0 1,350,000 
			 Droylsden Academy 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 Fulwood Academy 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 Milton Keynes 2,000,000 500,000 1,500,000 
			 Northumberland CE Academy 1,500,000 0 1,500,000 
			 Nottingham Academy 500,000 0 500,000 
			 Nottingham University Samworth Academy 2,000,000 0 2,000,000 
			 Red House Academy 1,250,000 1,000,000 250,000 
			 Strood Academy 500,000 0 500,000 
			 University Chester Church of England Academy 100,000 0 100,000 
			 (1) Figures are based on each academy's latest annual accounts (which were as at 31 August 2008).

Departmental Public Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to table 8.4 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, page 175, to which programmes the safeguarding spending budget for 2010-11 has been allocated.

Diana Johnson: holding answer 15 October 2009
	Detail on the constituent parts of the planned safeguarding spending, aggregated in DCSF's departmental annual report 2009, are provided in the table for the year 2010-11.
	
		
			  Departmental allocation, 2010-11 
			   £000 
			 Teenage Pregnancy/Substance Misuse 10,185 
			 Safeguarding Children and Supporting Families Grant 1,130 
		
	
	Please note that additional expenditure on these programmes occurs outside the departmental body as part of local authority spending.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to table 8.4 of his Department's annual report 2009, page 175, to which programmes  (a) the 2009-10 and  (b) the 2010-11 budget for child wellbeing has been allocated.

Diana Johnson: Detail on the constituent parts of the Department's Child Wellbeing programmes, which are shown aggregated in DCSF's departmental annual report 2009, are provided in the following table for the years 2009-10 and 2010-11:
	
		
			  Departmental report allocation (£ million) 
			  Child Wellbeing  2009-10  2010-11 
			 Priority Funds—Extension of three/four year old offer 0 340 
			 Children in care proposals 43 48 
			 Joint birth registration 1 10 
			 Commissioning efficiency 17 0 
			 Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' children/choice protects (receipts) -15 -18 
			 School based mental health 19 0 
			 Teenage pregnancy grant 0 2 
			 Treatment foster care 0 1 
			 Child well being total 65 383

Departmental Public Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to table 8.4 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, page 176, what the breakdown of spending is for youth programmes for 2010-11.

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 16 October 2009
	The Department's programmes shown aggregated in DCSF's departmental Annual Report 2009 for the year 2010-11 are provided in the following table:
	
		
			  Departmental Report Allocation 
			  Youth programmes  £000 
			 Contact Point (Capital) 35,200 
			 Youth Challenge Fund 4,300 
			 Workforce Development Capital Grant 218 
			 National Youth Agency (NYA)/National Voluntary Youth Agency (NVYO) Grants 8,000 
			 Children and Families Directorate (CFD) Capital Grant 21,334 
			 Voluntary Child Services (VCS) Children Young People and Families (CYPF) Grant & capacity improving 21,802 
			 Communications/Participation/Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) 864 
			 Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS)/Integrated Children's System (ICS)/ Making Safeguarding Everyone's Responsibility (MSER)/Adoption Strategy/ Quality Protects (QP) 59,523 
			 Family Fund Trust/Contact a Family 23,322 
			 10 Year Strategy Additions 66,000 
			 Youth Sector Support 40,000 
			 Peer Mentoring 240 
			 Youth Programmes total 280,803

Departmental Visits Abroad

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for  (a) Ministers and  (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years.

Diana Johnson: The data requested was for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). DCSF was established under the machinery of Government changes on 28 June 2007, therefore the response covers its predecessor the Department for Education and Skills (DFES).
	Overnight accommodation costs for overseas travel is inclusive for both Ministers and officials. Expotel the Department's contractor since 2007 are unable to separate Minister and officials overseas travel and without incurring disproportionate costs are only able to supply data for a period of two years.
	2007-08—£14,144.00
	2008—09—£34,229.00
	Since 1999 the Government have published an annual list of all visits overseas undertaken by Ministers costing £500 or more during each financial year, this information includes accommodation costs. Copies are available in the Libraries.

Schools: Transport

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on walking to school initiatives in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Diana Johnson: Since 2003 the Department, in conjunction with the Department for Transport, has jointly funded the 'Travelling to School Initiative' which sets out a series of measures to support local authorities and schools encourage more children to walk, cycle or take the bus to school. In 2009-10, £14.11 million in small capital grants has been allocated to schools with approved school travel plans, supported by £6.8 million joint revenue funding of local authority based school travel advisers.

Schools: Travel

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has contributed to the Travelling to School Initiative in each year since the project's creation; how much it plans to spend on the scheme in each of the next five years; and under which budgetary headings the spending falls.

Diana Johnson: The following table details the funding the Department for Children Schools and Families has contributed to the Travelling to School Initiative during the years 2004-05 to 2008-09 and the respective budgetary headings.
	
		
			  £ 
			   Amount paid 
			   Capital funding  Programme TTSI funding 
			 2004-05 14,251,730 3,530,000 
			 2005-06 22,657,923 3,530,000 
			 2006-07 21,495,745 3,530,000 
			 2007-08 22,704,632 3,530,000 
			 2008-09 18,977,031 3,661,183 
		
	
	Final totals for 2009-10 are not yet known, however allocations of £14 million (capital) and £3.4 million (programme) have been made. We will continue to make capital funding of up to £20 million along with programme funding of £3.4 million for the financial year 2010-11 to ensure that as many schools as possible are able to participate in and benefit from the programme.
	Resources beyond the current spending period (2011-12 and beyond) have not yet been determined, therefore future funding of this initiative will be dependent on and have to be managed from within the next spending review settlement.

Young People: Care Homes

Anthony Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will discuss with the Secretary of State for Health the matter of the security of young people in local authority care homes.

Diana Johnson: DCSF are responsible for all policies relating to children's homes. All children's homes must comply with regulations and National Minimum Standards. These require that premises must be fit and suitable for achieving the homes statement of purpose. Every home must be secure from unauthorised access. This could include for example using electronic surveillance to monitor those who enter and leave the premises or having ground floor windows that can only be opened part way.
	Where a local authority looks after a child, including those that may have been trafficked, then they are responsible for identifying a placement that will be appropriate to meeting their needs, including their need to be kept safe from any likely harm.
	On 1 July 2009, we published new 'Statutory Guidance on children who run away and go missing from home or care'. This sets out the measures local authorities must take whenever a child that they look after goes missing from their care placement and includes specific information about managing support for especially vulnerable groups of looked after children—such as those asylum seeking children who may have been trafficked into the UK.

Christmas

Mark Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many Christmas functions arranged by his Department and its agency  (a) he,  (b) officials of his Department and  (c) officials of its agency (i) hosted and (ii) attended in 2008; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The then Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) right hon. Member for Leigh, hosted a Christmas reception for the Department's non-departmental public bodies in December 2008 and a reception for journalists.
	The annual staff party at DCMS is self-funded by staff, and any profits made are donated to the DCMS Civil Service Sports and Social Club account. Information on functions that the Minister and officials attended could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	The Department has only one executive agency, The Royal Parks (TRP). TRP hosted an event for its stakeholders in December 2008.
	TRP also held its annual staff Christmas party which was paid for by TRP Directors and not the public purse. TRP staff were invited to the Winter Wonderland fair in Hyde Park by the organiser of the event.

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment: Pay

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was paid in staff costs by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in each of the last five years.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The information is as follows:
	
		
			   £ 
			 2004-05 3,805,441 
			 2005-06 4,514,700 
			 2006-07 5,006,935 
			 2007-08 5,878,202 
			 2008-09 6,525,985 
		
	
	The staff costs of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) are published each year in its annual report. Copies are available in the Libraries of both Houses and they are also available on CABE's website at:
	www.cabe.org.uk

Departmental Logos

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what expenditure his Department incurred in refreshing its logo in April 2006.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The costs were as follows:
	Initial design concepts: £3,055
	Identity design development: £10,460
	Identity guidelines: £10,800
	Total: £24,315.

International Olympic Committee

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many  (a) Ministers and officials from his Department and  (b) officials from his Department's sponsored bodies attended the International Olympic Committee conference in October 2009; and at what cost to the public purse.

Gerry Sutcliffe: No Ministers or officials from the Department attended the International Olympic Committee congress in Copenhagen in October.
	UK Sport have advised that two of their officials attended this event in October at a cost of £1,397.00.

Publications: Sight Impaired

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding the Government has provided for the translation and production of Braille editions of books in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Lucas: I have been asked to reply.
	The Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) has provided the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) with £200,000 per year for each of the past five years, to support them in their production of Braille materials.
	The Department of Trade and Industry (now Business Innovation and Skills) brought together publishers and the RNIB to increase the amount of content available in accessible formats (Braille, large print and synthetic audio). This directly led to an ongoing pilot project which also addresses the need for accessible versions to be available close to publication dates of the normal print version.
	The Dolphin Inclusive Consortium won an open tender to trial different formats of curriculum materials for blind and visually impaired pupils. The pilot will run during the 2009-10 school year then report back to DCSF. Staffing at the Consortium includes a part-time secondee from RNIB.

Sport England: Internet

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people have accessed Sport England's Active Places website in each year since its establishment; how much has been spent on the website in each such year; and what assessment has been made of the performance of the website against its objectives.

Gerry Sutcliffe: holding answer 26 October 2009
	Sport England advise that they do not record the number of 'hits' on the Active Places website. Instead, they record only the number of visitors using the tools and applications on the site. Figures provided by Sport England for the years since its establishment are as follows:
	
		
			  Unique users 
			   Number 
			 2004 59,660 
			 2005 161,506 
			 2006 204,348 
			 2007 218,378 
			 2008 114,270 
		
	
	The Active Places website was launched in July 2004 and therefore the figures for that year are significantly smaller than for the other years.
	Sport England advise that the website has cost the following amounts each year since its establishment:
	
		
			   Cost (£ million) 
			 2004-05 1.98 
			 2005-06 0.877 
			 2006-07 1.1 
			 2007-08 1.0 
			 2008-09(1) 0.894 
			 (1) Estimate. 
		
	
	The Active Places website provides information on sporting facilities in England, but also provides a number of benefits for other organisations. Performance is assessed on an ongoing basis, which helps to inform plans to expand Active Places alongside feedback received from users of the website.

Sporting Events: Finance

Andy Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what contribution his Department has made to the cost of the bid to host  (a) the 2018 Football World Cup,  (b) the 2005 Rugby Football World Cup,  (c) the 2014 Commonwealth Games and  (d) the 2013 Rugby League World Cup; what assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of holding each such event in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Department has made no financial contribution to the costs of bids to host the FIFA World Cup, the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the 2014 Commonwealth Games or the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, although there have been discussions with the FA about a potential loan in support of their bid.
	The economic impact of events can be significant. To take them in order  (a) the 2018 Bid Company have commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to produce an economic impact assessment; this has estimated a boost to the economy of between £2.1 billion and £3.2 billion;  (b) the International Rugby Board have published a report predicting potential economic benefits of up to £2.1 billion for a Rugby World Cup in 2015;  (c) the Glasgow Commonwealth Games organisers are estimating the creation of 1200 jobs; and  (d) the Rugby Football League are working with development agencies to assess the impact of the 2013 World Cup, though research shows one Melbourne match at the 2008 World Cup generated a boost to the Victoria's gross state product of 15.6 million Australian dollars.

Sports: Females

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what targets Sport England has set each of the sports governing bodies on increasing levels of participation of women and girls in sport; and how much funding has been allocated for this purpose in each case.

Gerry Sutcliffe: As part of their target of getting 1 million people doing more sport by 2012-13, Sport England includes an emphasis on the need to encourage women and girls to participate in sport.
	Over the period 2009-12 Sport England will invest £480 million in the national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport to deliver increases in participation within their individual sports. While Sport England has not set specific targets for NGBs on increasing participation among particular groups of people, funding levels for the sports were in part assessed on the strength of their strategic plans to deliver on increased participation amongst women, black and minority ethnic groups, and disabled people.
	Furthermore, Sport England, acting as a centre of best practice and working with their national partners, are committed to continuing to help NGBs deliver and to push them to do as much as possible to deliver for these groups. In the particular case of women and girls, funded and supported by Sport England, the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation is actively engaged with all of the NGBs, working in a consultancy capacity to advise the individual NGBs on best practice for increasing women's participation in sport.
	For the NGBs, developing the girls' and women's game, disability sport, and reaching out to diverse communities is not an optional extra but a vital part of what they are required to do. If any sport does not accept this challenge, Sport England will switch their funding to those that do.

Copyright: Music

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2009,  Official Report, column 2018W, on copyright: music, how many actions have been brought under section 107 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 for copying from one medium to another; what proportion of such actions resulted in a criminal conviction; and if he will make a statement.

Claire Ward: Information held centrally by the Ministry of Justice combines offences under Section 107 of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act with other similar offences under that Act. It is therefore not possible to provide prosecutions and convictions specifically under Section 107.
	The following tables, for the years 1988 to 2007 (latest available) show the number of prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales where Section 107 may have been used. Data for 2008 are planned for publication at the end of January 2010.
	Copying from one media to another becomes a criminal offence under Section 107 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 only if conducted on a scale prejudicial to the interests of the legitimate rights holder, or in the course of business.
	
		
			  Number of defendants p roceeded against at magistrates  courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under section 107 of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, England and Wales, 1988 to 2007( 1, 2) 
			   Proceeded against 
			  Offence  1988  1989  1990  1991  1992  1993  1994  1995  1996  1997 
			 Makes, imports or distributes illicit recordings. Makes for sale or hire, imports possesses or distributes articles which infringes copyright.(3) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a — — 219 154 78 
			 Other offences(4) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a — 1 110 39 91 
			 Person infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public(5) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a  
			 Total — — — — — — 1 329 193 169 
		
	
	
		
			  Offence  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Makes, imports or distributes illicit recordings. Makes for sale or hire, imports possesses or distributes articles which infringes copyright.(3) 86 65 72 59 38 47 65 107 132 176 
			 Other offences(4) 72 87 79 51 59 56 51 62 130 253 
			 Person infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public(5) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 6 16 33 
			 Total 158 152 151 110 97 103 122 185 278 462 
		
	
	
		
			   Found guilty 
			  Offence  1988  1989  1990  1991  1992  1993  1994  1995  1996  1997 
			 Makes, imports or distributes illicit recordings. Makes for sale or hire, imports possesses or distributes articles which infringes copyright.(3) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a — — 151 125 73 
			 Other offences(4) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a — 1 87 35 74 
			 Person infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public(5) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Total — — — — — — 1 238 160 147 
		
	
	
		
			  Offence  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Makes, imports or distributes illicit recordings. Makes for sale or hire, imports possesses or distributes articles which infringes copyright.(3) 62 45 51 51 26 40 44 85 109 132 
			 Other offences(4) 48 66 53 47 45 37 39 55 88 169 
			 Person infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public(5) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 6 13 10 30 
			 Total 110 111 104 98 71 77 89 153 207 331 
			 n/a = Not applicable. (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) The Ministry of Justice cannot separate offences relating to Section 107 from those under section 198. (4) The Ministry of Justice cannot separate offences relating to Section 107 from those under other sections of the Act. Statutes covered by this offence are as follows; Section 107 (1)(c), (1)(d)(i) and (ii) and (iii) Section 107 (2)(a), (2)(b), (3)(a) and (3)(b) Section 198 (1)(c), (1)(d)(i) and (ii) and (iii) Section 198 (2)(a) and (b) Section 201 (1) Section 276 (1) (a) and (b) Section 276 (2)(a) and (b) Section 276 (3) (a) and (b) Section 279 (3) Section 297 (1) (5) Includes S.107 2A and 4A as added by Copyright and Related Rights Regulations Reg 26 (1)  Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Coroners: Armed Forces

Joan Humble: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on which occasions public funding was made available to assist the legal representation of bereaved families at inquest proceedings relating to the deaths of service personnel in  (a) 2006,  (b) 2007 and  (c) 2008; and what the cost to his Department was on each occasion.

Bridget Prentice: Legal aid for representation is not usually available for inquests because an inquest is a fact-finding process and not adversarial. The Coroners system has been designed to function without the need for interested persons to be legally represented, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
	Exceptional legal aid funding can be granted by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on the recommendation of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) for representation at inquests, if the criteria are met.
	In 2006 funding was granted on two occasions, totalling £32,541.65
	In 2007 funding was granted on two occasions, totalling £37,089.78
	In 2008 funding was granted on four occasions, totalling £80,496.83.
	Case management is delegated to the LSC, so the final amounts agreed by the LSC may differ from the amount granted.
	The MOJ has provided legal aid in every inquest into the deaths of service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan where the LSC has recommended it.

Departmental Advertising

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on which initiatives of his Department and its predecessor and its agencies expenditure on advertising has been incurred in each of the last five years; how much was spent on each such initiative; and which such initiatives were offered for tender through the Central Office of Information.

Jack Straw: The Ministry of Justice was formed in May 2007 to take forward the work of the Department for Constitutional Affairs together with significant additional responsibilities transferring from the Home Office. These included the National Offender Management Service, which covers the Prison and Probation Services, and the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. The figures in the following table therefore relate to the Department for Constitutional Affairs where the financial years fall prior to 2007-08 and the Ministry of Justice on or after the 2007-08 year.
	The nature of the Ministry of Justice's activities is such that it does not engage in significant levels of advertising on initiatives. More than 95 per cent. of departmental advertising spend is on recruitment, mainly by Human Resources (HQ and NOMS). To provide information for individual recruitment advertising campaigns would incur disproportionate cost.
	 National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
	NOMS, which has responsibility for the prison and probation systems, has spent the following non-recruitment related amounts on advertising, external publicity and broadcasting. Amounts relating to specific advertising initiatives cannot be separately quantified.
	
		
			  Advertising expenditure 
			   £000 
			 2004-05(1) 0 
			 2005-06(1) 36 
			 2006-07(1) 17 
			 2007-08(1) 31 
			 2008-09(2) 281 
			 (1) The figure for 2008-09 is for NOMS HQ and HMPS but excludes the 42 local probation boards and trusts within NOMS as this information is held locally and could be collated only at disproportionate cost. The figures obtained for the financial years 2004-05 to 2007-08 is for HM Prison Service (HMPS) agency only. They exclude NOMS HQ (previously a directorate within the parent department the Home Office) and the National Probation Service (NPS) which are now part of the NOMS agency. (2) The 2008-09 figures are therefore not comparable to previous years. It would be disproportionate cost to obtain figures for both NOMS and the NPS for 2004-05 to 2007-08. Furthermore, it would incur disproportionate cost to investigate what advertising initiatives make up the figures in the table. 
		
	
	The expenditure on recruitment for the NOMS Agency in 2008-09 is £3,409,968, mainly on recruitment of prison officers. This figure may include other recruitment expenditure not considered to be publicity and advertising. Work to split out publicity and advertising spend from the total recruitment amount would incur disproportionate cost.
	The stated figure for NOMS excludes expenditure by the 42 local probation boards and trusts whose records are held locally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost. A one-off exercise undertaken in 2007-08 found that expenditure on advertising and promotion by local probation boards and trusts was £58,264. There are no current plans to repeat this information-gathering exercise for 2008-09.
	 Headquarters and other agencies
	For the rest of the department, the Ministry's central accounting records do not distinguish different types of advertising expenditure. To determine what expenditure relates to requires retrieval and examination of individual invoices and records held locally across the organisation.
	Advertising, publicity and communications expenditure over the last five years is set out with some of the expenditure for advertising in recruitment. However, not all of the expenditure on recruitment advertising is included since it is not separately quantifiable from the accounts. The Criminal Justice Group, which is part of the Ministry's headquarters, was formed from various Home Office functions transferred to the Ministry in April 2007. It is not possible to extract historical information for the Criminal Justice Group from the Home Office's records prior to 2008-09, meaning that the figures for Headquarters are not directly comparable between the financial years.
	
		
			   HQ( 1)  (£000)  HM Courts Service (£000)  Tribunals Service ( T housand)  Office of the Public Guardian( 2)  ( T housand) 
			 2004-05(3) 2,470 65 0 0 
			 2005-06(3) 4,023 1,049 0 0 
			 2006-07(3) 692 450 33 0 
			 2007-08(3) 610 270 127 14 
			 2008-09 1,976 486 41 39 
			 (1) For 2008-09 and 2007-08, headquarters relates to the Ministry of Justice. Prior to 2007-08, headquarters relates to the Department for Constitutional Affairs. (2) The Office of the Public Guardian was established from 1 October 2007. Its predecessor body was the Public Guardianship Office. (3) It is not possible to extract historical information for the Criminal Justice Group from the Home Office's records prior to 2008-09, meaning that the figures for Headquarters are not directly comparable between the financial years. 
		
	
	Business groups have identified the expenditure on specific advertising initiatives detailed as follows. These figures have already been accounted for in the figures within the table.
	 Democracy, Constitution and Law (DCL)
	Total advertising expenditure for all years from 2004-05 to 2008-09 is £573,564 on the following initiatives:
	Law Commission
	Information Commissioner's Office
	Elections and Democracy
	Information Policy
	It would incur disproportionate cost to split the expenditure between the four categories.
	 Criminal Justice Group (CJG)
	The two main advertising initiatives which are continuing are:
	Victims Sup
	Intimidated Witness
	The advertising expenditure for these two initiatives is not separately identifiable from the rest of the publicity and advertising expenditure of the CJG and it would be at disproportionate cost to undertake this exercise.
	 Access to Justice
	The vast majority of advertising expenditure was incurred by HM Courts Service (an agency of Access to Justice) for the Operation Payback initiative. The costs incurred is as follows:
	
		
			   £ 
			 2005-06 252,000 
			 2006-07 (1)21,000 
			 2007-08 2,110 
			 (1) via the Central Office of Information 
		
	
	 Tribunals Service
	2007-08: £204 was spent on the launch of the Welsh Language Scheme.
	 Central Office of Information
	The Ministry's accounting records identify all amounts paid to the Central Office of Information (COI). They do not, however, separately identify those amounts relating to advertising initiatives and it would be at disproportionate cost to investigate.
	The Office of the Public Guardian has incurred no expenditure with COI.

Departmental Motor Vehicles

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department spent on hire vehicles in each of the last five financial years.

Jack Straw: Information is provided for the two financial years since the Ministry's formation.
	The expenditure on hire vehicles for 2008-09 is:
	
		
			   £ 
			 The Ministry of Justice HQ 731,311 
			 HM Courts Service 661,236 
			 Tribunals Service 16,078 
			 Total 1,408,625 
		
	
	The expenditure on hire vehicles for 2007-08 is:
	
		
			   £ 
			 The Ministry of Justice HQ 829,740 
			 HM Courts Service 838,488 
			 Tribunals Service 18,885 
			 Total 1,687,113 
		
	
	The Office of the Public Guardian and the National Offender Management Service Agency cannot separately identify expenditure on vehicle hire from within their accounting system and their expenditure is not included. Furthermore, the figures provided may be incomplete because there may be expenditure on hire vehicles assigned to generic travel and subsistence codes which cannot be separately identified from the accounting system.
	To collate the information for the constituent parts of Government that were merged to form the Ministry of Justice for the years 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 would incur disproportionate cost.

Departmental Telephone Services

Mark Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many helplines his Department operates; and how much his Department has received from the operation of such helplines in each of the last three years.

Bridget Prentice: Ministry of Justice operates the following 11 helplines either directly or through its Executive Agencies: National Offender Management Service Victim Helpline, Home Detention Curfew and Release on Temporary Licence Helpline, National Mediation Helpline, Family Mediation Helpline, Sentence Calculation Helpline, Prisoners' Families Helpline, Prisoners Abroad Helpline, Nacro Resettlement Plus Helpline, Her Majesty's Courts Service Bulk Centre Helpdesks, Office of the Public Guardian Helpline, the Land Registry telephone service.
	In addition the Legal Services Commission (a non-departmental public body of the Ministry of Justice) operates the following three helplines: Community Legal Advice, Criminal Defence Service Direct and the Duty Solicitor Call Centre.
	The Department continually reviews the provision and usage of its helplines to ensure that they meet the needs of their users and to ensure that value for money is optimised in respect of these services.
	Three of these helplines operated revenue sharing agreements with their telecoms providers in respect of their telephone services.
	The Land Registry received the following sums:
	
		
			   Revenue received (£) 
			 2006-07 221,543 
			 2007-08 164,787 
			 2008-09 40,026 
		
	
	This arrangement ceased in February 2008. The sum received in 2008-09 is a rebate figure relating to the previous year.
	Her Majesty's Courts Service Bulk Centre Helpdesks received the following sums:
	
		
			   Revenue received (£) 
			 2006-07 7,684.14 
			 2007-08 8,075.97 
			 2008-09 10,338.68 
		
	
	The Legal Services Commission received the following sums in respect of the Community Legal Advice helpline:
	
		
			   Revenue received (£) 
			 2006-07 7,019.08 
			 2007-08 9,697.36 
			 2008-09 17,597.00

Prisons: Construction

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what he expects the additional running costs of the capacity added by his Department's prison capacity building programme to be in each year to 2014-15.

Maria Eagle: The estimated annual running cost of the capacity provided as part of the Core Capacity Programme is around £480 million, once the programme has been completed. The Core Capacity Programme is expected to be complete by 2012.
	This figure excludes the running costs of the proposed new 1,500 place prisons.
	The procurement process for the five 1,500 capacity prisons, known as the New Prisons Programme, is already under way. An OJEU notice to establish a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Framework for firms who could design, build and operate these prisons was published on 3 August 2009. This is designed to allow private sector innovation into the full lifecycle of the prisons construction and operation. As such, the running costs will differ for each provider, each site and depend upon the function of the prison. At this early stage in our procurement it is not possible to reveal the estimated running costs from the New Prisons element of the Capacity Programme.

Prisons: Manpower

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officers have been employed  (a) in total and  (b) full-time (i) as at 31 March in each year since 1997 and (ii) on 31 January 2009.

Maria Eagle: Information on the total and full-time number of prison officers and prison custody officers in each year since 1997 is contained in the table. The information covers both public sector and contracted establishments and public sector headquarters functions.
	
		
			  Prison officers and prison custody officers ,  1997 to 2009 
			  Date  Full-time  Part-time( 1)  Total  Full-time equivalent 
			 31 March 1997 18,340 — 18,340 18,340 
			 31 March 1998 18,595 — 18,595 18,595 
			 31 March 1999 19,156 — 19,156 19,156 
			 31 March 2000 19,280 — 19,280 19,280 
			 31 March 2001 18,782 184 18,966 18,874 
			 31 March 2002 18,028 301 18,329 18,179 
			 31 March 2003 18,387 410 18,797 18,592 
			 31 March 2004 20,000 533 20,533 20,324 
			 31 March 2005 20,604 659 21,263 20,995 
			 31 March 2006 20,990 716 21,706 21,412 
			 31 March 2007 21,226 850 22,076 21,724 
			 31 March 2008 21,656 985 22,641 22,226 
			 31 January 2009 21,812 1,100 22,912 22,449 
			 31 March 2009 22,112 1,156 23,268 22,789 
			 (1)Full-time/part-time split is not available prior to 2001.

Apprentices

Vincent Cable: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  how many Government-funded apprenticeship places were available in  (a) England,  (b) London,  (c) Richmond-upon-Thames and  (d) Twickenham constituency in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how many Government-funded apprenticeships have been undertaken in  (a) England,  (b) London,  (c) Richmond-upon-Thames and  (d) Twickenham constituency in each of the last five years.

Kevin Brennan: Apprenticeship funding for further education (FE) colleges and providers is set out in a maximum contract value (MCV). This amount reflects the anticipated cost for an academic year of supporting learners continuing on programmes from earlier years as well as new starts. We do not fund on the basis of expected places rather the number of total learners that can be supported in a given year with the funds available.
	Planning assumptions for funded apprenticeship places for the 2009/10 academic year were published in the Grant Letter to the Learning and Skills Council (November 2008). Further to this, we announced a £140 million package to deliver 35,000 extra apprenticeship places over 2009/10. Although information on apprenticeship places is not available, we do publish the number of apprenticeship starts in each academic year, at both a national and sub-national level.
	Apprenticeship Starts for 2003/04 to 2007/08 were published in a statistical first release (SFR) on 25 June 2009:
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/sfrjun09
	Supplementary table 5.1 shows apprenticeship starts by Constituency, Local Authority, Government Office Region and England for 2003/04 to 2007/08.
	Provisional full-year figures for 2008/09 were published in a statistical first release on 22 October:
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/sfroct09
	Supplementary geographic breakdowns will be available shortly after the main release.

Apprentices: Milton Keynes

Mark Lancaster: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has to extend the apprenticeship schemes in operation in Milton Keynes, with particular reference to the scheme operated by ABB Robotics; and if he will make a statement.

Kevin Brennan: The development of high level technician skills in industry is one of our key priorities in responding to the economic downturn. The engineering apprenticeship programme operated by ABB Robotics UK in conjunction with Milton Keynes college is the type of high quality investment in emerging technologies we wish to encourage and the reason why we are continuing to expand our investment in apprenticeships. We expect to invest over £1 billion this year, and last week we published provisional data for 2008/09 showing 234,000 people started an apprenticeship—a record number.
	The National Apprenticeships Service is managing plans to promote and expand apprenticeships and will work with companies such as ABB to develop and support their skills investment.

Business: Government Assistance

Paul Burstow: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding has been drawn down from the Working Capital scheme by each eligible financial institution in each month since it became operational; and if he will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: The following guarantees have been agreed on three bank loan portfolios under the Working Capital Scheme:
	£0.5 billion to Royal Bank of Scotland in April 2009;
	£0.6 billion to Lloyds Banking Group in April 2009; and
	£1.1 billion to Lloyds Banking Group in July 2009.
	Each bank has paid a premium to the Department for these guarantees; no money has been paid to any bank under these guarantees as there have been no defaults.

Business: Registration

Jim Cousins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what obligations companies registered in the UK have to list with Companies House their subsidiary companies; what sanctions exist for non-compliance with such obligations; and on how many occasions enforcement action has been taken in the last five years.

Ian Lucas: The requirement for companies to notify Companies House of subsidiary undertakings is covered in sections 409 - 410 of the Companies Act 2006 (it was formerly section 231 of the Companies Act 1985). Sections 409 - 410 should be read in conjunction with SI 2008/409 and SI 2008/410.
	Unless an exception applies all companies with subsidiary undertakings must disclose them in a note to their accounts at the end of each financial year.
	Alternatively, if section 410(2) applies a company can opt to provide a full list of subsidiaries as an annex to the company's next annual return but this would also need to be explained in the notes to the accounts in question.
	If a company fails to comply with this requirement the company and every officer commits an offence. The fine for this offence on conviction is one not exceeding level 3 of the standard scale which is £1000 and for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 of the standard scale.
	Enforcement wise Companies House only deal with this type of breach following a complaint. In the last five years we have had only two complaints where compliance was achieved without prosecutions taking place.

Charities

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what grants his Department and its predecessors made to charitable organisations in each of the last five years.

Patrick McFadden: The Department may have given grants to charitable bodies through a number of our programmes, but the status of the organisations are not recorded. The Department, however, does provide grant in aid for operating purposes to the following organisations that are registered as charities. The organisations and amounts (where they are over £100,000) are as follows:
	
		
			  Budget 
			  £000 
			   2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  2009-10 
			 Citizen Advice 23,855 21,470 21,470 (1)21,470 28,970 
			 Citizen Advice Scotland 3,240 2,916 3,016 3,389 3,362 
			 Design Council 6,035 6,605 6,179 6,435 6,475 
			 UK Skills 2,800 3,200 5,000 5,900 10,100 
			 Ufi/learndirect 201,000 171,000 156,000 158,000 145,000 
			 Learning and Skills Improvement Service—(est October 2008) n/a n/a n/a 99,000 96,000 
			 (1) HMT allocated an additional £2.5 million in PBR November 2008 to enable CABx to extend their opening hours for 2008-09—this money is ring-fenced.

Departmental Mergers

Lorely Burt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department has spent on external advice on the implementation of the merger of the former Departments of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Patrick McFadden: The Department has not incurred any expense on external advice in implementing the merger of the two Departments. The cost of the merger to date are £160,000, primarily on changes to accommodation and building signage, offset by savings from removing duplication.

Departmental Visits Abroad

David Simpson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for  (a) Ministers and  (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years.

Patrick McFadden: Following a machinery of government change the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills was formed in June. The following figures relate to the Departments before the merger.
	The amount spent by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on overnight accommodation while overseas in each of the last three years was:
	
		
			   £ 
			 2006-07 131,372 
			 2007-08 318,655 
			 2008-09 445,255 
		
	
	The amount spent by Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills on overnight accommodation while overseas since it was formed in 2007 was:
	
		
			   £ 
			 July 2007-08 3,387 
			 2008-09 4,048 
		
	
	The Department does not separately record overnight accommodation undertaken by Ministers from that of officials—to provide this information would entail disproportionate costs.
	The Cabinet Office publish details of overseas visits costing in excess of £500 undertaken by Ministers, details are available by clicking on the following link:
	http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/propriety_and_ethics/ministers.aspx

GCSE and GCE A-Level: Young Offenders

Robert Wilson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people in  (a) the secure estate and  (b) Reading Young Offender Institution sat (i) GCSE and (ii) A Level examinations in each year since 2004.

Kevin Brennan: The information is not available in the format requested, as we do not record the number of people sitting exams.
	Table 1 shows that there were 788 GCSE enrolments and 112 GCE, A/AS and A2 level enrolments by learners funded through the Offenders' Learning and Skills Service in the 2006/07 academic year and 1,194 GCSE enrolments and 264 GCE, A/AS and A2 level enrolments in the 2007/08 academic year—an increase of 406. There was no record of GCSE and GCE, A/AS/A2 level enrolments recorded in HMP and YOI Reading in either year.
	
		
			  Table 1: Increase in GCSE and GCE, A/AS/A2 level enrolments for offenders, 2006/07 and 2007/08 academic year, England 
			   Number of enrolments 
			   2006/07 academic year  2007/08 academic year 
			 GCSE 788 1,194 
			 GCE A/AS/A2 level 112 264 
			 Total 900 1,458

Higher Education: Admissions

Nigel Evans: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Universities and Colleges Admissions Service applicants are given correct information regarding the status of their applications;
	(2)  what estimate he has made of the number of applicants affected by errors in the online system employed by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service to allocate university places in 2009.

David Lammy: The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is an autonomous organisation funded by its member institutions, and it is responsible for managing applications to higher education courses in the UK. UCAS has provided us with following information. It receives results from the major awarding bodies and having added them to applicant details held at UCAS makes them available to institutions. It is then the institutions' responsibility to make decisions based on this information—updating the applicant's on-line record via UCAS systems accordingly. UCAS then processes this data and communicates the decision to the applicant both online and by letter. Through the online service, applicants were able to view the decisions received by UCAS at all times. UCAS informs us that on no occasion during this application cycle were any errors made by them in the processing of decisions.

Manufacturing Industries: Leeds

John Battle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of firms in  (a) Leeds West constituency and  (b) the City of Leeds are involved in manufacturing.

Rosie Winterton: Information from the interdepartmental business register on the number of manufacturing enterprises registered for VAT and/or PAYE in the Leeds city council area and the Leeds West parliamentary constituency in 2009 is given in the following table.
	
		
			   Manufacturing enterprises( 1, 2)  All enterprises 
			  Area  Number  Percentage of total  Number  Percentage of total 
			 Leeds City Council 1,550 7.4 20,910 100 
			 Leeds West Constituency 230 13.5 1,705 100 
			 (1) UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activity (SIC) 2007 (2) Business numbers are rounded to the nearest five. These numbers comprise whole business enterprises registered in the appropriate locations, and not branches operating in the appropriate location but with their headquarters elsewhere.  Source: Office for National Statistics Inter-Departmental Business Register 2009

Post Offices: Norwich

Chloe Smith: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many post offices there were in Norwich North constituency in  (a) 1997,  (b) 2007 and  (c) January 2009.

Patrick McFadden: The Department does not hold the information requested. I have therefore asked Alan Cook, Managing Director of Post Office Ltd., to respond directly to the hon. Member and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.

Regional Development Agencies: Pay

Margaret Moran: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which staff in which regional development agencies (RDAs) received a salary greater than £50,000 in 2008-09; what expenses were reimbursed by each RDA to each such staff member in 2008-09; what pension entitlement each such staff member accumulated in 2008-09; what estimate has been made of the monetary value of hospitality received by each such staff member in 2008-09; whether such staff members received further benefits from their RDA in 2008-09; and what the equivalent figures were for each  (a) chief executive and  (b) chair of each RDA in 2008-09.

Rosie Winterton: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Vocational Training: Leeds

John Battle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding his Department has made available to  (a) all unemployed persons and  (b) unemployed persons under the age of 21 in Leeds West constituency to learn new skills to retrain in the latest period for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.

Kevin Brennan: The information is not available at constituency level. I have asked the acting chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council to write to my right hon. Friend with information about funding for training for unemployed people available in his region.
	A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.